The water-cure in chronic disease : an exposition of the causes, progress and terminations of various chronic diseases of the digestive organs ... and of their treatment by water, and other hygienic means / by James Manby Gully.

  • Gully, James Manby, 1808-1883.
Date:
[1847?]
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Credit: The water-cure in chronic disease : an exposition of the causes, progress and terminations of various chronic diseases of the digestive organs ... and of their treatment by water, and other hygienic means / by James Manby Gully. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    NERVOUS DYSPEPSIA. The result of mental shocks, tense condition of thought, excesses of the passions, mercury, iodine, opium, hitter tonics, sal volatile, «tc. Also follows on nervous fevers treated badly, and on blood- letting. In its course is accompanied with more animal pain, spasms, eructa- tions, flatulence, sinking, gnawing, great and frequent but oiten capri- cious appetite, distress after eat- ing, slight thirst, bowels irregular, faeces sometimes coloured, some- times otherwise. The tongue is generally red, clean, and swollen, or covered with a white, silvery mucus, the lips and gums red and swollen, eyelids red, skin flushed in places, subject to eruptions and pimples, flesh ema- ciated and toiry. Restlessness of mind and body impatience, irascibilit}’’, pain, and giddiness, and weakness of head. Produces atonic congestion of head and gradual palsy. Causes palpi- tation of the heart, stomach cough, and even tubercular deposit in lungs. The liver only irregularly and for a time involved. Pulse generally quick and sharp. MUCOUS DYSPEPSIA. The result of sedentary habits, study, excesses of diet, especially eating, saline purgatives, arsenic, and other mineral tonics. In its course begets scarcely any animal sensations, is accompanied by little flatulence, much rising of food, deficient appetite, great thirst, bowels torpid, evacuations white. Tongue flabby, covered wuth co- loured fur, red edges and points appearing at the sides and centre of it, lips marbled or like yellowish wax, eyelids the same, skin like parchment, body turgid with un healthy fat. Tendency to somnolency and in- activity of body, irresolution and depression of s])irits; dull pain with confusion of head. Produces apoplectic seizure and sudden I>alsy. Excites but little morbid sympathies in the chest, but is generally allied with considerable disorder of the liver. Pulse gene- rally dull, hard, and comparatively slow. These will suffice to mark the pathological differences between the two states of dyspepsia; although there are other more minute signs which make the line of demarca- tion still more pronounced. They are important, inasmuch as they indicate, on the side of nervous dyspepsia, exces- sive irregular functions with mal-distribution of blood; whilst, on the part of mucous dyspepsia, the phenomena point to oppressed function with stagnation and congestion of blood in important organs ; considerations which must necessarily have much influence on the treatment.