A slight sketch of remote and proximate causes of affections of the stomach, erroneously termed nervous or bilious : with a few plain directions for the prevention and cure of dyspepsia.

Date:
1825
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Credit: A slight sketch of remote and proximate causes of affections of the stomach, erroneously termed nervous or bilious : with a few plain directions for the prevention and cure of dyspepsia. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    mulation of diseases: the bilious fever, first noticed in the Mediterranean, by Cleghorn, afterwards by Sir John Pringle; the yellow fever, of the West Indies, so accuratel} described by Dr. J. Hunter; the Typhus Fever; the Angina Pectoris; the Croup; the Tic Douloureux; &c.; were unknown to physicians at the commencement of the eighteenth century. The inflammatory fever, which formerly raged with so much violence, has changed its type, and given place to the low, nervous, putrid, jail or hospital fever. The symptomatic affections of the stomach, <» which, a few years since, were termed nervous^ are now said to be hilious; a term, which seems to imply that they are occasioned by bile, whereas it will appear that they arise solely from Intem¬ perance. Dr. Whytt, on Nervous Diseases, remarks, that the symptomatic affections of the stomach ‘‘ have been treated of by authors, under the names of Flatulent, Spasmodic, tlypochon- driac or Hysteric. Of late, they have also got the name of Nervous; which appellation having been commonly given to many symptoms seemingly different and very obscure in their nature, has often made it be said that physicians have bestowed the character of nervous on all those disorders whose nature and causes they were ignorant off” B 2