A treatise on indigestion : with observations on some painful complaints consequent on indigestion, especially nervous affections / By Thomas J. Graham.

  • Graham, Thomas John, 1795?-1876.
Date:
1838
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Credit: A treatise on indigestion : with observations on some painful complaints consequent on indigestion, especially nervous affections / By Thomas J. Graham. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Mr. Howship, at pages 123 and 125 of the work just referred to, has noticed two cases of this description, and Dr. Blackall, in his work on dropsy, mentions others. Mr. Howship’s first case, (page 103), was that of a gentleman, who, after many years of hard drinking, died from a blood-vessel in the lungs bursting into the cavity of the chest; “ the liver, stomach, and bowels, were apparently healthy, except the head of the colon, which felt thickened. I therefore dissected this part out, secured its vessels, and the same evening injected it. In this operation, scarcely any resistance was felt from the arteries; and on cutting open the bowel, I found this was owing to a broad band of ulceration by which the villous membrane sur- rounding the head of the colon and cavity of the ccecum was destroyed, the vessels upon the ul- cerated surface allowing the injection to flow freely into the gut.” With regard to positive pain at the pit of the stomach, and in the sides, I think it is so common, that few cases of derangement of the digestive organs occur, without some degree of it, and therefore it is not an indication of dis- ease or disorder in the liver. Dr. Marshall Hall is of the same opinion. “ Sometimes,” he observes, page 75, “ there is extreme pain ex- tending across the false ribs, leading to the suspicion of inflammation of the pleura, or, to- together with the affection of the complexion, it