The mineral waters and health resorts of Europe : treatment of chronic diseases by spas and climates, with hints as to the simultaneous employment of various physical and dietetic methods / being a rev. and enl. ed. of "The spas and mineral waters of Europe' by Hermann Weber ... and F. Parkes Weber ... With a map.

  • Weber, Hermann, 1823-1918.
Date:
1898
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    associated with cirrhosis of the Hver we refer to Section 26 of this chapter. The dyspepsia of smokers seldom requires balneo- therapeutic treatment, but the waters just mentioned are sometimes helpful. For the numerous forms of dyspepsia in fiouty persons we refer to what has been said on the management of gout (Section 14). The dyspepsia attendant on habitual constipation is to be removed by the treatment of the latter condi- tion (Section 20). The dyspepsia of ancemia is likewise sometimes caused by chronic constipation ; but is frequently due to mal- nutrition of the mucous membrane from the imperfect composition of the blood. In deciding on the treatment (Section 3) the question of there being an actual gastric ulcer has to be considered. The dyspepsia of the early stage of pulmonary tuberculosis requires the climatic, dietetic, and general hygienic management of this affection (see Section 4 of this chapter). Chronic Chronic catarrh of the stomach (chronic catarrhal or inflammatory dyspepsia) is frequently due to over-feeding (eating too much or too frequently), the abuse of alcohol, or a too stimulating diet. In such cases it frequently follows, or fills in the intervals between, repeated acute or subacute attacks. It is often dependent on passive venous congestion caused by chronic cardiac, pulmonary, or hepatic disease.' It may be associated with gout, the ' Gastro-intestinal catarrh is, however, often not so much a result of chronic hepatic and renal disease, as a predisposing cause of these diseases. It favours putrefactive changes in the gastro-intestinal con- tents, and the mucous membrane becomes in its diseased condition more permeable to the passage of the products of decomposition. The latter are therefore absorbed into the circulating blood, and so act harmfully on the liver and kidneys. (See also N. Tirard, Lancet, 1896, vol. ii. p. 377.) Indeed much more indican (one of the results of intestinal putre- faction) can sometimes be found in the urine during inflammatory attacks associated with diarrhoea, than is found even during obstinate constipation.