Volume 1

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.

Date:
1821
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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.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    feels a degree of despondency. Instead of thinking too lightly of his complaint, he often regards it in the most serious point of view, and cannot be persuaded that any thing less than some important derangement, can pro- duce the anxiety and depression by which his attention gradually becomes wholly en- grossed ; for none but an attentive physician can know how slight a derangement of the alimentary canal, especially after the habit of disease is formed, is capable of es- sentially influencing every function of the system. While the symptoms thus proceed, a change, sooner or later, takes place, which marks an important step in the progress of the malady. The alvine discharge begins to deviate from the healthy appearance : it sometimes contains uncombined bile, some- times it chiefly consists of bile ; its colour at other times is too light, more frequently too dark, and occasionally, at length, almost black; at different times it assumes yarions hues, sometimes inclining to green, sometimes to blue, and sometimes it is mixed yyith, ^nfl