Practical reflections on the nature and treatment of disease: founded upon sixteen years experience in the cure of gout, rheumatism, scrofula, fever, ringworm, indigestion, spinal affections, etc., and remarks on the present system of medical education and practice, with suggestions for its improvement / By Samuel Westcott Tilke, Medical Botanist.

  • Tilke, Samuel Westcott, 1794-
Date:
1844
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Credit: Practical reflections on the nature and treatment of disease: founded upon sixteen years experience in the cure of gout, rheumatism, scrofula, fever, ringworm, indigestion, spinal affections, etc., and remarks on the present system of medical education and practice, with suggestions for its improvement / By Samuel Westcott Tilke, Medical Botanist. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    repeated redundancy of food and liquid, which weaken the springs, and impair the solids, upon which the whole frame is supported. I shall touch lightly on this head, as I can find time only to give short hints; yet, those who will read and attend to the suggestion, may draw some correct inferences as to the cause of their own sufferings. There is scarcely any other disease on which so many different opinions have been expressed as ‘“InpIGESTION.” This will not be surprising to one who knows the great influence which this organ exercises on the state of the health, and which, if in an imperfect condition, gives rise to symptoms of the most distressing nature. It has been proved, that the salivary secretions bear so close a resemblance to the gastric juice of the stomach, that no one can doubt of their being identically the same. These act upon the food, and cause it to undergo a very considerable alteration, the support from which builds up our structure from infancy to old age, and gives mental powers and energy, when the stomach has ability to extract from all such things as are proper for the support of the body. There is no doubt that the very moment food touches the lower part of the stomach of a man faint with hunger and fatigue, he instantly feels its cordial and invigorating effect, as if the essence of nourishment were immediately conveyed from B2