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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    been very much enervated, the cold, damp, and varying atmosphere of this climate is Hi-adapted for a suscep- tible and delicate pulmonary apparatus. What too with the inadequate cutaneous transpiration in indi- viduals of this kind, we cannot be surprized at the frequent existence of bronchial irritation. An extra- ordiaary sympathy exists between the stomach and lungs, and this gives rise to a very troublesome cough, which has received the somewhat unsatisfactory name of stomach cough. I say unsatisfactory, as such a term is very apt to carry with it a dangerous amount of delusion. If on the contrary, the use of such a defini- tion impressed sulFerers therefrom, with its importance, I then should be extremely satisfied with it, inasmuch as I think, that the requisite attention would be drawn to the state of the stomach and entire digestive ap- paratus, and the removal of any derangement of that kind would strike at once at the root of the malady, for when once morbid action traverses the rubicon, which is the boundary between functional incapacity and organic change, as far as the delicate substance of the lungs goes—it resolves itself into a subject of the gravest importance. I have met with many cases, wherein patients sufi-ering from this condition of system, betrayed all the external appearances of persons in a decline, and who impressed all their acquaintances with that conviction. Pale face, sunken eyes, anxious look, emaciation, drooping shoulders, and troublesome cough are the usual symptoms. I do not hesitate to affirm that many of the extra-