A treatise on pyrosis idiopathica, or water-brash : as contrasted with certain forms of indigestion and of organic lesions of the abdominal organs, together with the remedies dietetic and medicinal / by Thomas West.

  • West, Thomas, 1948-
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1841
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    two or three days, have been known to attend the attacks of the essera, or nettle-rash. It has often happened to the same person to have a tumour of the abdomen disappear upon the sudden gushing of about a pint of water from the uterus. In one person, whose abdomen had been swelled for two or three years, a sudden swelling w^ould often rise up in other parts, as on the thighs, back, and thorax, quite up to the neck. A tumour half as big as a child's head would suddenly rise up in the same patient's neck; and though the swelling of the belly never totally disappeared, yet it would sometimes in a morning be hardly perceivable, and in an instant the whole abdomen would become so distended that the skin seemed ready to break. She often felt something move from the stomach to the Umbs, which were immediately convulsed. Dr. Seymour, in his paper on Pyrosis in the London Medical Gazette, vol. i. p. 783, speaks of it as an occasional symptom of organic disease of the Uver, stomach, and pancreas. In the first and last case a slight affection of this kind is merely symptomatic, and in scirrhus the means of diagnosis have been already inculcated. Dr. Seymour premises that his remarks apply only to cases of watery fluid from the stomach, as they are presented to the observation of the physician in large towns, and among persons from whose manner of living it is manifest that the ex- clusive use of vegetables cannot be considered as a remote cause of the disease. I do not see why c