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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    ])rove it in any case tliat may be submitted to me; so that chronic stomach irritation acts in two Avays in the produc- tion of pulmonary consumption :— 1st, By establishing, through the sympathy which exists between all parts of the organic neiwes, an irritation in the spongy texture of the lungs—a state AAdiich, of itself, supposes a morbid condition of the circulating blood in the chronically diseased spot, but which, in this case, is further rendered morbid by 2nd, The morbid state of the whole blood of the body resulting from the imperfect digestion of food in a state of chronic disease. As I have already remarked, this extension of chronic disease may, and generally does, take place Avithout the slightest pain. Chronic irritation of the stomach, in which the liver is also usually iiiA^olved, also takes an extension toivards the kidneys^ in which an action is consequently set up, and a kind, of blood generated, both generally in the body, and particularly in the kidney, that produces a secretion of ATiriously clisordered urine, but the chief varieties of Avhich are the acid, the albuminous, and the saccharine. As results of this extension Ave have to note three formidable maladies—stone and gravely Brights disease^ and diabetes. Another disease, droiisy^ A’^ery often attributed to the kidneys alone, I shall, further on, shoAv to be connected rather with malady of other parts, and notably of the blood-making organs, the stomach and lungs. There are some extensions of chronic disease of the stomach to the skin that take place AA'ithout pain or other animal sensation. Several kinds of tetter come under this category, especially those of the dry kind, AAdiich are marked by an excessive secretion of skin, causing the scurf that so often prevails in patches OA^er the body. The skin complaint, technically called ac?zc, and AAdiich consists in the iiresence of small pimples AAuth white heada, scattered over the shoulders and forehead, and thickly ranged on the chin, is, for the most part, unaccompanied Avith pain or other sensation, in its character of an exten- sion of chronic indtation of the digestive organs ; for that it is such is abundantly proA^ed by the whole history of the disease, as Avell as by the operation of diet, and other medical means applicable to the stomach upon it. As regards the extension of chronic disease of the diges-