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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    character and origin, the next step is the con' sideration of those symptoms, which do not, necessarily, attend true idiopathic dyspepsia, but are sometimes present, sometimes ahsenty and therefore termed by the author occasional. Of the occasional symptoms, some are simply the result of mal-concoction ; others can only be explained, by assuming as their cause, a vitiated state of the fluids. Of those, the effect of mal-eoncoetion, we have nausea, acid eructations, sensation of heat in the stomach or bowels; sensation of cold at the pit of the stomach ; shortness of breath ; palpitation ; irregular appetite. Nausea, which though not a constant, is a very frequent attendant upon dyspepsia, is caused by the ingesta—for want of the proper changes— undergoing spontaneous decomposition, and, in this state, acting upon the stomach as an extra- neous body,—producing, in some cases, even vomiting. Acid eructations give evidence of mal-concoction and the formation of acid in the stomach ; but their absence is no proof that such operations are not in progress.