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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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Licence: Public Domain Mark

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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    I shall mention nothing in the following pages which did not come under my own observation. / Ihave employed galvanism in many cases // of habitual asthma, and almost uniformly with relief; and have found this affection of the breathing as readily relieved when it appeared as a primary disease, as when it succeeded to Indigestion. The time, during which the galvanism was applied before the patient said that his breathing was easy, has varied from five mi- nutes to a quarter of an hour. I speak of its application in as great a degree as the patient could bear without complaint. For this effect I latterly found from eight to sixteen four- inch plates of zinc and copper, the fluid em- ployed being one part of muriatic acid, and a hundred and twenty of water, sufficient. Some require more than sixteen plates, and a few cannot bear so many as eight; for the sensibility of different individuals to galya- nism is very different. It is curious and not easily accounted for, that a considerable