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.

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    The subjects among whom Spasms of the Sto- mach of this description are found principally to occur, are, females who have miscarried, or lain-in, there being on these occasions a very great susceptibility of cold, and of peritona?al in- flammation ; and whether by the Stomach sym- pathizing with it, or from any inflammatory state of the Stomach itself, the • Spasm is produced, it,is not easy to determine; but the point in practice which I endeavour to establish is, that- such Spasms are not to be treated by what are called antispasmodic remedies, but by those me- dicines which act on the antiphlogistic plan, of w’hich the best in my opinion decidedly are antimony and digitalis conjoined ; there being, I have reason to believe, some peculiar efiect produced by their combination, different from what is experienced when either is administered individually. CASE. ]\I. W. aged 35, has bad four children, tlie last is three years of age, complains of great weakness and internal sinking, with a Jlic/i- €7'mg* at the Stomach, and violent Spasms * This word is frequently made use of by the common peo- ple, and as it is a kind of onomatopoeia which is easily under- stood, I have used it, that the case may be conveyed as far as possible in the language of the patient. at