Short remarks upon autumnal disorders of the bowels, and on the nature of some sudden deaths, observed to happen at the same season of the year : Thoughts on the natural causes of the bile's putrescency, and its noxiousness in the circulation. Physiological thoughts on spasms, and the seat and origin of them in the animal oeconomy / by Andrew Wilson.

  • Wilson, Andrew, in Path-head.
Date:
1765
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Credit: Short remarks upon autumnal disorders of the bowels, and on the nature of some sudden deaths, observed to happen at the same season of the year : Thoughts on the natural causes of the bile's putrescency, and its noxiousness in the circulation. Physiological thoughts on spasms, and the seat and origin of them in the animal oeconomy / by Andrew Wilson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ( ) monly called the pit of the ftomach. If the pain comes on gradually, it gives the more opportunity for prevention. The pain is of that nature as to affeft the fpirits immediately and caufe the uneafy fenfation which one has when threatened with a fainting fit; fuch a pain it is, fo far as I can guefs, as one feels upon receiving a fudden blow or injury upon the pit of the ftomach: as this pain continues it is felt to af¬ fect the body a-crofs from back to bread, and from fide to fide, with a pain, tightnefs and anxiety all about the pre- cordia. The patient draws or endea¬ vours to draw long breaths like fighs, fuch as attend faintings ; but thefe fighs are fometimes cut with a fliarp pain felt upon thefe efforts *, the heart either flutters or does its office faintly, the pulfe weakens of courfe, the extremities grow cold and damp, a cold fweat rifes on the face alfo which looks ghaftly, a (difficulty of breathing comes on and the ftif-