Volume 1

Indigestion, biliousness, and gout in its protean aspects / by J. Milner Fothergill.

Date:
1881-1883
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Indigestion, biliousness, and gout in its protean aspects / by J. Milner Fothergill. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    ON INDIGESTION AND BILIOUSNESS. CHAPTEE 1. INTRODUCTION. There are many ailments, many disturbances of health, which embitter our existence, and limit our power of labour, that are not illumined by any side-hght from the deadhouse. They are essentially the maladies of the hving! It is not disputed that in certain cases changes are found in the dead-house, ennabling the cases to be classed as chronic gastritis, gastric ulcer, gastric cancer, or gastric dilatation; but then, these are the ultimate changes at the end of the case. Before these pathological conditions have been developed, there has been a long preceding history of functional disturbance ; and even when they are fully developed, the stomach retams some of its functional power until the last; or untH very near the last. Such mere anatomical division of the maladies of the stomach is useful diagnostically, and prognostically ; even more so in the deadhouse; but for all purposes of rational treat- ment such division is as sterile as a Vestal vkgin. To be of practical avail to the patient, the stomach must be looked on from the standpomt of its physiological func- B