On atrophy of the stomach and on the nervous affections of the digestive organs / by Samuel Fenwick.

  • Fenwick, Samuel, 1821-1902.
Date:
1880
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Credit: On atrophy of the stomach and on the nervous affections of the digestive organs / by Samuel Fenwick. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    PBEEACE These are few diseases that have of late years attracted more notice than pernicious anaemia. Its rare occurrence, the absence of symptoms pointing to disease of any organ in particular, the negative results of post-mortem inquiries, and its steady progress towards a fatal termination, have tended to invest it with an unusual amount of interest. Clinical observers have recorded most minutely the symptoms during life, and pathologists have searched the various organs after death, in the hope of obtaining a clue to the cause of this malady, but hitherto without avail. It seems, however, not to have been suffi- ciently borne in mind that the anaemia that so rivets the attention of the practitioner is only a symptom, and may arise from an imperfect performance of the functions of any of the organs engaged in the formation of the blood. I have shown in Chapter II that general atrophy of the gastric glands is accompanied by intense anaemia, and that, therefore, some of the cases of this disease must be