On dyspepsia : with remarks, submitted in support of the opinion that, the proximate cause of this, and of all other diseases, affecting the general system, is vitiation of the blood / by John Burdett Steward.

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1847
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    disposition to eat, but without the comfort or satisfaction expected. Of the symptoms just enumerated—in some patients all, in others some are wanting ; and in others, again, they may one or all be present or absent, at dijBPerent times, in the progress of the disease. Some have a craving for food; some loathe the sight of it; some have acid eructations,nausea, and vomiting; others suflFer nothing of the kind. Some complain of pain of the stomach or elsewhere ; some are affected with giddiness, palpitation, and pyrosis, or, as it is called, water brash ; others are free from such symptoms. Again : some are me- lancholic, others martyrs to rheumatism. Gene- rally the tongue is foul; sometimes very red, but not unfrequently it is nearly, if not quite, natural. The sleep is generally disturbed, but even this symptom is not constant. In short, on no symp- toms, together or individually, can we rely for the purpose of diagnosis, except those above enumer- ated as the constant and characteristic marks of the disease.* These symptoms, existing without fever, and unaccompanied by local disease, con- * Page 41.