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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    lungs. In the present publication I am about to enter into the subject more fully, and endeavour, as far as a long continued and anxious attention to the phenomena of the cases in question, and the known laws of the animal economy will enable me, to trace the nature and the consequences of that af- fection of the centre of the system, for so the stomach may justly be called, which, if neglected, produces a general tendency to disease, that often, fixing on some vital organ, wholly destroys its organisation. It is one of the curious circumstances of the progress of the disease we are consi- dering, which particularly demands attention, that when it fixes decidedly on one organ, the others are, to a certain degree, and sometimes wholly, relieved. The establishment of all the above secondary affections generally re- lieve the dyspeptic symptoms; and, even a secondary disease may be relieved by another supervening on it. * Thus, it is not uncommon in Indigestion for the liver to suffer in such a manner, that it