A treatise on derangements of the liver, internal organs, and nervous system : pathological and therapeutical.

  • James Johnson
Date:
1820
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    scrophulous tubercles there into a state of inflammation, and finally suppuration or confirmed phthisis. And as in the fevers of India, where the heat is excessive, the liver has been found almost (invariably affected ; so, in this country, where cold and moisture prevail, a greater or less degree of pulmonic inflammation or congestion aceom«- panies almost every febrile attack. This principle, [Cutaneo-jpulmouic Sympathy] explains the enormous waste of life occasioned <by aerial vicissitudes ope1 rating. on the lungs of delicate females through the medium of the skin, in consequence of the lightness of their dress, and their frequent exposure 'to the chilling damps of night, .after the perspiratory vessels have been over-excited in crowded rooms, or fatigue has been induced by the seduc- tive exertions of the dance. , 2. Sympathy between the Skin and Stomach. The next association, or consent of parts, between the exterior and interior, is that subsisting between the skin and (stomach'; which, in uniformity with the former, we may designate the cutanEo-G astric Sympathy. This has long been observed and acknowledged by physicians; but its.important influence on health has not been sufficiently attended to by practiti- oners. One of the most familiar and frequent instances il- lustrative of this consent, is, where cold or wet is applied to the feet, exciting pain or indigestion in the stomach; an occurrence which, almost every individual, whether valetudi- nary or not, must have personally experienced. Now, when we consider the influence which the state of the stomach, [the primary organ of digestion sympathising extensively with the whole nervous system] must have on the health; and when we contemplate the frequency of the abovemen- tioned occurrence in a climate for ever varying from beat to cold ; from drought to moisture;' we cannot but. conclude, that this contributes materially to swell the long catalogue of stomach complaints. In this, as in the former instance, delicate females, with a languid circulation, light dress, and thinrshoes, become thr most common sufferers; and hence, although tluv are infi- nitely more temperate in food and drink than the other sex; yet are they considerably more subject to the whole tribe of xlyspeptic complaints, particularly heart-burn, flatulence, pain in the stomach, and want of appetite. 3. Sympathy between tJie Skin and Bowels. The third me- dium of influence between the surface of the body and the