Practical observations on disorders of the stomach : with remarks on the use of the bile in promoting digestion / by George Rees.

  • Rees, George, 1776-1846.
Date:
1810
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Credit: Practical observations on disorders of the stomach : with remarks on the use of the bile in promoting digestion / by George Rees. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    ( but this expression conveys no intelligible idea, and is rather a subterfuge adopted by ignorance, than an explanation of the fact. Sympathy can never arise but through the medium of nerves. A pain in the shoulder is no unusual concomitant of a diseased liver, and was formerly attributed to sympathy, but is now known to proceed from the branches of the phre- nic nerve, which ramify on that organ, and send ofif collateral portions to the muscles in which this pain is perceived. This being esta- blished as an axiom, it will materially assist us in investigating the morbid affections originating in the Stomach, if we examine the par. vagura and its various ramifications. The par VAGUM. The Par Vagum, or eighth pair of nerves, take their origin from that portion of the brain which rests on the back part of the cranium de- nominated the medulla oblongata, and from ocular inspection it would appear as if this was the part with which it chiefly had communica- tion ; but as the front part of the head is fre- quently disordered by complaints of the Sto- mach, it would be unwarrantable to conclude, that /