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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    NECESSITY FOR BULK IN THE SOLIDS. The disciples of Apicius aaid Petronius flatter them- selves that, in the art they have displayed in the con- centration of the nutritious elements of the food, they have confen-ed a lasting benefit on the gastronomic wants of society, than which supposition nothing coiild be more erroneous. In a healthy condition of the gastro-enteric canal, a certaia amount of bulk, in reference to each repast, is positively necessary, for the purpose of good and healthy digestion. It is not only of importance, that food of any kind should possess nutritious properties, but that there should be an admixture of particles, which are subsequently destined for expulsion ^from the body ; it is absolutely reqmsite that every portion of the ali- mentaiy track should have substances brought in contact with it, which shaU bring into operation each respective function :—this observation poiats, as before remarked, to a healthy state only of the digestive canal: in certain diieases, dysentery, for example—where there is a lesion of surface, it is quite otherwise ; then, the more emol- lient and the less irritating the egesta can be rendered the better, for the purpose of assisting Natvu-e in shaking off morbid action, and establishing the process of redinte- gration. P