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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    by the expansion of the Par Bagum on the in- terior coat of the Stomach, that this organ is the principal source from which the nervous influ- ence, or what I think better adapted to explain the idea, the nervous fluid |s distributed. This opinion, though not susceptible of de- monstration, bears strong marks of probability, and affords a solution of ph<^nomenq. otherwise not easy to explain. On this principle I shall endeavour to account for the symptoms of many diseases that appearing to originate in some fault or imperfection of another organ, will on closer inspection be perceived to depend on the state of the Stomach itself. Indeed the operation of a great proportion of t]ie medicines we are in the daily habit of ad- ministering, is confined tp the Stomach, and producp their salutary effect by the impression they make on the surface of this viscus, and not by any chymical combinations with the fluids of the system. Dr. Wrightit compelled a dog to fast fifty-six hours, and then made him swallow a pound of bread and milk, in which an ounce and a half of green vitriol was dissolved: on opening this animal an hour after the experiment, he col- f Vid. Phil. Transactions for l750, vol. 1. part 2. p. 295. lected