The stomach and its difficulties / by Sir James Eyre.

  • Eyre, James, Sir, 1792-1857.
Date:
1856
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The stomach and its difficulties / by Sir James Eyre. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE. It is lon;^ since I promised to give to the public the result of my observations on the Digestive Organs ; the study of which has been always, to me, replete with deep interest; and having at length nearly renounced all nocturnal profes- sional avocations, I am thereby enabled, with undisturbed study, and calm reflection, to watch the ever-varying phases presented by that im- portant organ, the Stomach ;—which, wheir it duly furnishes its pure functional secretions, is, like Fire, invalualde,—as a Slave, but otherwise it becomes a dangerous, because too powerful Despot! It is either, like the vernal airs'' that usher in the gentle Spring, mildly, but muniriccutly, refresliing and revivifying the curlh ; or else it resembles the rude violence of elemental strife, devastating by its impetuous fury all that impedes its disastrous course. ])e it then still my daily study to minister to ''The J)i(lieullies of the Stomach—that Pandora's
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