A treatise on bowel complaints: intended for the use of physicians, families, parents, masters of vessels etc. in the United States / By John G. Vought.

  • Vought, John G. (John Graff), 1791-1832.
Date:
1823
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Credit: A treatise on bowel complaints: intended for the use of physicians, families, parents, masters of vessels etc. in the United States / By John G. Vought. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    SS mihiarly recognized by the public, is that of remittent and also mtermittent fever. Views of this subject, more comprehensive and accurate, have enlarged the number of them, by bringing back to their proper station, many diseases, formerly so much disguised in external appearances, as to conceal the fact of their radical relation. And it will not be surprising, if this simplification sheuld be carried much farther, nor if our successers should cluster together a still larger as- semblage of diseases, and demonstrate their origin all from one common cause. é i am inclined to ask if the disease mentioned by Dr. A. Coleman. of Chio, which he calls the sick sto~ mach, * may not be considered as a modification of the same diseases here mentioned, and which arises from the same cause? The symptoms, he says, are disagreeable, sickening sensations at the stomach, and general debility. and lassitude, succeeded by great loathing, nausea and vomiting, or distressed retching to vomit; the vomiting returns every hour; the pa- tient complains of great distress, and a burning sensa- tion at the stomach. Hiccough and hot belchings are often troublesome. The tongue is slightly furred, and the breath is very offensive, and has a peculiar and ve.* disagreeable smell. In more malignant cases, the patient falls into a stupor, the eyes are protruded, and pupils dilated, with other symptoms of phrenitis, with an occasional vomiting of black porraceous mat- ter, which generally destroy the patient in a few days. He says, the materials generally thrown out of the sto- mach, consist of liquids that have been swallowed, which are hot, acrid, er sour, when ejected. This disease is said to arise from the deleterious quality of some unknown vegetable poison. I would *Coleman on the sick stomach, Phil. Med. Jour. No.vill. p. 822.