A dialogue between a bilious patient and a physician / [James Henry].

  • James Henry
Date:
1838
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Credit: A dialogue between a bilious patient and a physician / [James Henry]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    powers or present state of your stomach. You inform me that circumstances render it difficult for you to use the means necessary to strengthen the stomach ; the conclusion is obvious; you must diminish the quantity of the food. By so doing you will relieve yourself from the bilious symptoms; you will be no longer troubled with flatulence, acidity, and oppression after meals; your tongue will become clean, your spirits light, and your ^stomach, being no longer required to do more than it is able to do, will gradually improve in tone and temper. But this method, although calculated to cure your bilious symptoms, is still an imperfect method; because your sedentary, anxious, careful life—the original cause of the disorder in your stomach—will still exert its injurious influence, weakening and emaciating your muscles, shattering your nerves, and unfitting your stomach for the digestion of more than the smallest quantity of the plainest food. You will be improved indeed, because your stomach will be able to digest the diminished quantity of food ; but this quantity of food being too small to impart full strength and vigor to your frame, you will still be an invalid, although no longer bilious. If you wish your cure to be complete, combine the two methods judiciously together. While your stomach continues weak, give it less work; but in the mean time do not neglect the means necessary to restore its strength. As it grows stronger, it will not only be able to do more work, but its work will be better done ; it will digest its food better, and the food digested better, will produce stronger muscle, bone, and sinew, by means of which you will be enabled to take an increased quantity of exercise without fatigue ; the increased quantity of exercise will produce increased strength of stomach, and the increased strength of stomach, increased strength of muscle, bone, and sinew;
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