On dyspepsia induced by the habitual use of soda-water and artificial seltzer-water / by Dr. Le Guillon.

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[©1869?]
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    ON DYSPEPSIA INDUCED BY THE HABITUAL USE OF SODA-WATER AND ARTIFICIAL S ELTZE R-WATER ' Ex-Pysician-Major in the Imperial Navy, Knight of the Legion of Honour. Gastritis which, forty years ago, was predominant over the whole pa thology, and was considered as contributing three fourths, if not more, to the general mortality of the population, has disappeared with the doc- trine of the illustrious French reformer Broussais, a doctrine as chime- rical as the sickness on which it was founded. But if gastritis, which represented a lalse theory, has almost ceased, dyspepsias and gastralgias, which represent morbid phenomena, an abstract term apphcable to every theoretical explanation, replace it more and more. It the stomach be not inflamed, which is certain in the im- mense majority of cases and doubtful in many others, it is undeniable that it often suffers and that, still more often, it fulfils badly its func- tions even when it suffers but little or not at all. I mean that gastralgia and dyspepsia take a larger and still larger place in our practice and , consequently in our treatises; especially as to the latter of these facts, to be convinced of which, it is sufficient to remark the great number of authors who have occupied themselves with dyspepsia during the last fifteen years, and, to mention only the principal among these coriters, the works of Ghomel, Trousseau, and Beau, in France; and of Graves, and Leared, in England. At first sight, it might be supposed that dyspepsia and gastralgia have only taken the place of gastritis, and that there is nothitig changed but the name in the pathological condition of the populations of France