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

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    ■»* t 53 ] without predifpofition, the ftomach does not yield too much, and its energy is kept up by coid on the furface, fo that a flight eruption happens fbmetimes without fever. Heat on a part feems to increafe the vario¬ lous ftate of veffel. Cool air on the furface recovers perfons from the ftate induced by carbonic, azotic, and other noxious airs, the firft fymptom of which is vomiting; from lyncope, and from the ftill-born ftate, the firft exertion from which is feen to be about the region of the ftomach ; and the cold feems to operate, as in difcharges of blood, by exciting the ftomach from its paflive ftate. Affedtions of the ftomach, as ob- ferved, mark fever in its attack, progrefs, remiffion, crifis, and cure; all its caufes a fi¬ fed! the ftomach; it has no fymptom but what an immediate application to the fto- mach may produce and its evacuation re¬ move ; and it is often prevented and cured by remedies affedting only that organ. Its