On diseases of the stomach, the varieties of dyspepsia, their diagnosis and treatment / by S.O. Habershon.
- Samuel Osborne Habershon
- Date:
- 1879
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: On diseases of the stomach, the varieties of dyspepsia, their diagnosis and treatment / by S.O. Habershon. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![ordinary phenomena upon the functional integrity ot other parts. The organism by which the mind operates is easily disturbed, and it has long been acknowledged that the stomach easily affects thought and judgment, reason and memory. Whilst digestion is going on, the mind is less active, whether the effect be due to a larger quantity of blood being sent to the stomach, or to the blood being altered by the influx of new material; and in states of exhaustion, the slight additional disturbance to the vasomotor and cerebro- spinal system of nerves is sufficient to induce a sense of faintness, giddiness, or of actual syncope. If the contents of the stomach be difficult of solution, or of a too stimulating character, these cerebral modifications are still more manifest; and if such be the case in ordinary health, during dyspepsia the faculties of the mind become more evidently disturbed. Mental op- pression, and an inability to exert thought with the ordinary energy, is a common symptom, and the powers of reason and judgment often become per- verted. The ]}ypochondriac sees everything under an erroneous aspect, and forms his judgment accordingly. The manner in which the senses are disordered by gastric disturbance is very remarkable. The functional alterations of the sight are not always identical. There may be a general haziness, but more frequently sight is perverted by irregular vision or partial obscurity, so that only part of an object is discerned, or irregular](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b20396041_0038.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
