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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    Some of the operations of the mind—the passions— affect digestion in a marked degree. Misfortune, grief, family bereavement, disappointed ambition, and the disease so fancifully alluded to by the poet, as curable by no herbs *—over-exertion of mind or body—as exhausting the nervous influence; all these are very frequently the origin of digestive ailments.f THE KIDNEYS, AND THEIR CONNEXION WITH DIGESTIVE AILMENTS. The kidneys are two glandular bodies, whose office is that of secretion. The object of secretion in the animal oeconomy is two-fold—to prepare fluids for the due per- formance of organic function and structural duties, and to rid the system of such as are superfluous to Nature's wants. The kidneys, in common with the skin and digestive mucous surface, are destined to fulfil the im- portant duty in question, but not in equal proportions; it is the kidneys, upon which, in a state of health, devolves the duty of separating the limpid portions of the blood, to be subsequently expelled from the body. Hei Milii! qu6d amor nuUis est medicabilis herbis ! —Ovid. t Danger, long-travail, want, and woe, Soon change the form that best we know; And deadly fear can time outgo, And blanch at once the hair. Hard toil wUl roughen form and face, And want will quench the eye's bright grace ; Nor does old age a wrinkle trace, more deeply than despair! SOOTT.