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-
Date:
1841
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Credit: 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. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    acidity, produced by articles which are not hkely to become acid. These symptoms are probably connected with a diseased condition of the mucous membrane of the stomach. In some of the cases formerly described, we have seen them connected with actual ulceration; in others, the membrane appears thickened, pale, and spongy, with an increased and unhealthy secretion. A woman mentioned by Andral, vomited every day about four pints of white glairy mucus like the white of eggs ; and she never vomited either food or drink. On dis- section, no other morbid appearance could be dis- covered than a general thickened state of the mucous membrane of the stomach, which was of a brownish colour, and the follicles were remarkably developed. When the fluid discharged is tinged of a brown or chocolate colour, ulceration is to be suspected: in other cases, only a thickened state of the mucous membrane is met with, combined with an appearance of melanosis. The fluid in these cases has been found to contain a large proportion of albumen, and the colour appears to arise from the colouring matter of the blood. The affection is very untractable; it is often benefited by lime water, bismuth, the stimulants, as garlic and benzoin, and frequently by the acids, particularly the nitric ; likewise by blistering and mild farinaceous diet. In his remarks on a different affection (tympanitis) he gives a variety of cases which will serve to support the views I have taken of the pathological condition