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A treatise on indigestion and its consequences, called nervous and bilious complaints; with observations on the organic diseases, in which they sometimes terminate . / by A.P.W. Philip.

  • Philip, Alexander Philip Wilson, 1770-1847.
Date:
1824
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Credit: A treatise on indigestion and its consequences, called nervous and bilious complaints; with observations on the organic diseases, in which they sometimes terminate . / by A.P.W. Philip. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    other diseases being complicated with them, it has almost always proved hurtful. I have remarked that in this form of the disease it never seems to improve the strength, as it often does in dyspeptic phthisis, by improving the digestion. In it the digestion is generally good, and we have nothing to compensate for the debilitating effects of the mercury. If there be any case of idiopathic phthisis in which mercury is proper, it is one which I have already had occasion to mention, in which the pulmonary disease produces dis- ease of the digestive organs; of which we still find hepatic affection the prominent fea- ture, and which always tends to aggravate the original disease. I have not, however, found it useful in such cases, which I think may be easily explained. In them the pul- monary affection is far advanced before the affection of the digestive organs appears, and both on this account and because the former is the original disease, it cannot be removed by removing the latter. Besides, it is not likely that a mild course of mercury will re- - move the hepatic disease, while the cause 2B