A treatise on indigestion and its consequenses, 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:
1833
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Credit: A treatise on indigestion and its consequenses, 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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    My chief objects in the following Treatise have been to give arrangement to the various affections which have been termed Nervous and Bilious; to investigate the nature of the disease on which they depend; to detect the causes which determine them to assume the different forms in which they are presented to us, and to ascertain the a]>propriate treatment of each of these forms. In enumerating the symptoms, I have been led to enter more fully than, I believe, has hitherto been done, into the manner in which the sympathy of parts influences the phenomena and treatment of diseases, and thus to endeavour to ascertain some of the laws by which it is regulated. An attempt has been made to distinguish the symp- toms which are the more immediate effects of the causes of the disease, from those which arise from the continuance of the disease itself; and to show, that on a correct discrimination of these two classes of symptoms, the successful treatment, in a great degree, depends. My attention has been particularly directed to the latter class of symptoms, by which the changes which take place in the progress of the disease are indicated. I have endeavoured to ascertain the nature of these changes, and the manner in which they influence the various functions, and at length, in many instances, destroy the organization of some vital part. The adaptation of the means of cure to the changing nature of the disease has been constantly kept in view; for similar trains of symptoms, at its different periods, we shall find, require different, and sometimes even 0[)posite, remedies.