A familiar treatise : nervous affections, disorders of the head and chest, stomach and bowels, &c. Also, on the means of repairing a debilitated constitution, through the establishment of a healthy digestion; including prescriptions in plain English, from the writings and private practice of eminent physicians / By J. Stevenson, M.D.

  • Stevenson, J., M.D.
Date:
1830
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Credit: A familiar treatise : nervous affections, disorders of the head and chest, stomach and bowels, &c. Also, on the means of repairing a debilitated constitution, through the establishment of a healthy digestion; including prescriptions in plain English, from the writings and private practice of eminent physicians / By J. Stevenson, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Neurophobia cf* Gastromania^ f oa NERVINE MADNESS, AND STOMACHIC INSANITY, &c. &c. PART J. A SIMILE. THE human frame has not altogether Inaptly been compared to a watch, of which the heart is the main spring, the stomach the regulator; apd that which we put into it, the key by which this piece of compli- cated mechanism is wound up; the pulse, which it regulated by the state and contents of the stomach, the vibrations of ihe pendulum; the countenance, the . index or dial by which one may “ tell what o’clock it iM,” and whether it h^high water or low water^ either ' with a man’s health or his purse; to say nothing of I his outer appendages, which may resemble the case, iand which will frequently be found to correspond with ! the “ time o’ rfoy” pointed out by the dial, whether it B