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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    f)4 second on the same subject, sent to the Royal Society of Gottingen, appeared in a German journal, from whence Dr. Murray, in his Apparatus Medicami- num, has drawn a very detailed extract. The remedy had already been used by a few foreign physicians, but experimentally only; nor did they appear to be ac- quainted with its specific effects. Dr. Murray notices that it had been employed by Pott at Berhn, who, in the year 1739, gave an unfavourable account of it. Now by reference either to Odier's papers, or to the Apparatus Medicaminum, we shall not find the least authority for employing it in pyrosis: lis precipue qui a nimia fibrarum ejus carnosarum irritabilitate pendent; and the author goes on to specify hysteric belchings, colic, diarrhoea, palpitation of the heart, and, above all, gastrodynia, which last symptom is in nowise connected with water-brash; for instead of it the patient experiences a cardialgia, coursing from the left extremity of the stomach up to the fauces. Upon Odier's authority Dr. Marcet, returning from a visit to Geneva in 1804, introduced it in the Borough Hospitals; and on the appearance of his paper in the sixth volume of the Memoirs of the Medical Society, the medicine came into vogue for all maimer of opposite conditions of stomach. He used it in doses of five grains, with fifteen grains of traga- cantli, repeating the dose three times a day. Dr. Marcet's cases are selected agreeably with the experience of Dr. Odier. By reference to them it will