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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    named by other febrile symptoms; and the last, by the symptoms of organic disease in the abdomen, chest, or head. The relative duration of these different stages, as well as the severity and nature of their symptoms, is very various in different cases. In some, the first stage is very slowly, even when the occasional causes of the dis- ease have been long and repeatedly applied, changed into the second. Thus we see men of the most irregular habits, and others whose habits are good, but whose digestive organs are naturally weak, for many years labouring under the symptoms of the first stage of In- digestion, without the disease, if I may be allowed the expression, fixing on them. The former are greatly indebted to natural vigour of constitution, and in the latter, the stomach alone is weak. In the former, par- ticularly when the above symptoms have been severe, when at length any considerable degree of inflammatory action supervenes, change of structure often very quickly ensues, the organs, from long continued irritation, being, as it were, prepared for the change.