A treatise on neuralgic diseases, dependent upon irritation of the spinal marrow and ganglia of the sympathetic nerve / By Thomas Pridgin Teale.

  • Teale, Thomas Pridgin, 1801?-1867.
Date:
1829
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Credit: A treatise on neuralgic diseases, dependent upon irritation of the spinal marrow and ganglia of the sympathetic nerve / By Thomas Pridgin Teale. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    length of time, often aggravate the disease and render it complicated with gastritis. Cases of this kind must have occurred to most medical men, and I freely ac- knowledge, that I have often been teazed and perplexed with them, and have felt it a relief when my patient has been induced to betake himself into the country, or has transferred his confidence to some other member of the profession. Many of these cases, which had resisted the usual modes of treatment, I have since found to be connected with tenderness on pressing some of the middle or lower dorsal vertebre ; and on removing the tender- ness in the spine and neighbouring parts by proper remedies, the stomach affection and attendant symptoms have been almost immediately relieved. From observing several instances of this kind, I was led to consider this disordered state of the stomach strictly as a nervous affec- tion of that organ, dependent upon irritation or inflam- mation of those nervous masses or ganglia from which the splanchnic nerves are derived. The tenderness in the neighbourhood of these ganglia strengthened the sup- position, and the result of the treatment still further con- firmed it. In the affection, which I have now more particularly to describe, the functions of the stomach are impaired, and it becomes the seat of various morbid phenomena, which may be easily mistaken for chronic gastritis. The principal symptoms denoting the complaint, in addition to tenderness in the neighbourhood of the middle and lower thoracic ganglia, are, 1. Indigestion, or simple impaired digestive power, from which the food, instead of undergoing those changes which constitute healthy digestion, becomes subject to the control of the ordinary chemical affini-