Practical observations on nervous and sympathetic palpitation of the heart, as well as on palpitation the result of organic disease / by John Calthrop Williams.

  • Williams, John Calthrop, 1801-1856.
Date:
1852
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Credit: Practical observations on nervous and sympathetic palpitation of the heart, as well as on palpitation the result of organic disease / by John Calthrop Williams. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    of having eaten too freely, either of generous food or of an article of diet which, from peculiarity of constitution, was difficult of digestion. In some cases, indeed, the distress will continue long after the offending cause is removed ; and it occasionally assumes a degree of obstinacy almost incredible. The subjects of this form of palpitation are usually nervous ; the palpitations are irregular, tumultuous, and accompanied by accelerated respiration, or more or less difficulty of breathing. Derangement of the biliary sec]e- tions is likewise a frequent cause of sympathetic palpitation, particularly of that variety which pre- cedes attacks of gout. All these dyspeptic dis- orders derange the circulation in the portal sys- tem, throw the blood back on the right side of the- heart, produce congestion, and thus ultimately excite the functional derangement now de- scribed. Flatulency of the stomach is also a well-known exciting cause of palpitation ; but in such cases the effect is probably more mechanical than sym- pathetic, and arises from displacement of the heart by the distended abdominal viscus. This view is confirmed by the fact that palpitation from this cause is more severely felt when the