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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    tering his panacea, (calomel), in large, oft-re- peated doses, which, by excessively stimulating, and debilitating the secreting vessels of the liver, and of all the other digestive organs, pro- voked disorder, and paved the way for a rapid supervention of disease. It is well known that Dr. Curry was in the habit of salivating people twice and even thrice during a single attend- ance, and it is to be feared, that the patients he has left behind, with broken, ruined health, “ the remnant of their former selves/' from the excessive use of calomel, are very numerous. The professional man who allows his judgment to be so far perverted by a favorite hypothe- sis, or notion, as to lead him, without scruple or care, to institute measures that are inimical and poisonous to the constitutions of his pa- tients, may be truly called unfortunate, and his errors ought to be pointed out, that the public may be sensible of the danger of such means, and young practitioners also put upon their guard.* 2. When the stomach and other digestive organs are weakened, it is certain that they are often unable to exert that power over the mat- ters they contain, which in a state of perfect health prevent their acting chemically on each other, and occasioning decompositions and * I should not allude in this way to Dr. Curry’s opinions and practice, if it were not, in my opinion, necessary to bear the most pointed testimony against them.