The anatomy of dyspepsia : being a practical inquiry in the derangements of the organs of digestion, shewing their connexion with cutaneous diseases, renal disorders, and nervous affections embracing hints to tropical invalids, with remarks on exercise, clothing, and ventilation / by Watson Bradshaw.

  • Bradshaw, Watson.
Date:
1864
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Credit: The anatomy of dyspepsia : being a practical inquiry in the derangements of the organs of digestion, shewing their connexion with cutaneous diseases, renal disorders, and nervous affections embracing hints to tropical invalids, with remarks on exercise, clothing, and ventilation / by Watson Bradshaw. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CONSTIPATION AND ITS EFFECTS. The proximate seat of Constipation—Proper Bile essential— Impropriety of undue Purgation—Observations on Aperients— Diarrhoea, as the consequence of Constipation—Usual origin of Constipation—^Mechanical Obstruction. THE POSTAL SYSTEM. The Hffimorrhoidal Veins—Constitutional effects of Piles—Ill- effects of Portal Sanguemission—Necessity for the removal of Alvine Obstructions—Proximate causes of Piles—Prevalence of Piles with Tropical Residents—With Pregnant Women—^Nervous Dyspepsia, resulting from long continued pain—Classification of Piles—Vary- ingness of Piles—Occasional Consequences—Beat of Piles, lower end of Eectum—Possible duration of Constipation—Piles peculiar to Man, why ?—Alarming haemorrhage from PUes—Fatal cases recorded—Peculiar liabihty of some persons to Piles—Necessity for early attention to them—Predisposing Causes of Piles anatomically viewed—Digestive AUments, as leading to them—Treatment of Piles—Castor OU as a Laxative—^When insufScient for the purpose— Utility of Anodyne fomentations—Efficacy of Belladonna—Impro- priety of Cutting Internal PUes—Treatment of External PUes— Usual Situation of Piles—^Danger of Hsemorrhage—Use of Leeches —Mistakes as to Locahty of Piles—The Mind viewed as the Function of the Brain—Usual Origin of Mental AUments—Extra- ordinary Effect of Flatulence—Suicides—Fimction of Skin relative to Internal Organs—Ligatures inadmissible for External Piles. MOEBID SENSIBILITY OF THE DIGESTIVE TUBE, Effects, when usually experienced—Nerves supplying Stomach—The Sympathetic Nerve—WhyExtraordinary Symptoms prevail—Irregu- larity of the Pulse—Effects of Food upon the Pulse—Other Effects