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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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    enabling the patient to use exercise*, no doubt contributes to the more healthy action of the digestive organs; but I have seen the morbid state of the bile and other symptoms of Indigestion relieved by galvanism in cases where there was no affection of the breathing, and where all the usual means, and even small, and frequently repeated, doses of blue pill had failed. In some, galvanism, at the time of its ap- plication, occasions a tendency to sighing ; and in some, in whom it removed the dyspnea, it seemed to occasion a permanent sense of sinking referred to the pit of the stomach. This was easily relieved by small doses of carbonate of iron and bitters, without any return of the dyspnea. Galvanism generally eave a great degree of relief to the dyspnea, when it produced this effect. In the Inquiry into the Laws of the Vital ti * The effect of indolence, in painful diseases, 1s often much less injurious than in health. Pain, if not so great as to overpower, in some degree, comes in place of exercise, in preserving the general activity of the functions.