Facts, tending to show the connection of the stomach with life, disease, and recovery / by Charles Webster.

  • Webster, Charles, 1750-1795.
Date:
1793
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Facts, tending to show the connection of the stomach with life, disease, and recovery / by Charles Webster. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    turn in proportion to this fenfibility of the ftomach. Impreffions differ not only in kind, but in degree, and are powerful, being lefs refilled, as they are fudden. Strong ones, as eme- tics, warm water, &c. adt chiefly on the ffomach, while weak ones, fuch as do not even naufeate, and have little fenlible qua- lity, as fmall dofes of emetics, warm water, abforbents, farfaparilla, entire muftard-feed, and oxyds, afFedt the remoteft parts, and are much ufed in indigeftion, nervous dif- eafes, paflive difcharges, and ulcers, A remedy or dofe to the unaccuhomed, ope- rates like an unexpedted blow or event, with proportional force; a jftrong impreffion on the furface affedls the part chiefly, while tickling, a fcratch, dentition, a tranf* planted tooth, and other feemingly weak but peculiar impreffions, affedt tfye ftomach gnd fyftem conflderably. Qxternql