Practical observations on disorders of the stomach, with remarks on the use of the bile in promoting digestion / [George Rees].
- Rees, George, 1776?-1846.
- Date:
- 1811
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Practical observations on disorders of the stomach, with remarks on the use of the bile in promoting digestion / [George Rees]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![having a dry black tongue, and every symptom of typhus fever. The state of the Stomach under fevers in ge¬ nera], admits of an explanation, by a reference to the same principle. In all fevers, the substance of the brain itself is the seat of the disease: to this remark, which is the result of considerable reflection, I think I can challenge contradict fion :* waving, however, the consideration of the * Dr. Clutterbuck, in his excellent work, entitled, ee An Inquiry into the Seat and Nature of Feter,’* has given the most satisfactory evidence in proof of this assertion ; I hope I may be permitted to state, however, without the least inten¬ tion of detracting from the merit or originality of his ideas, that I had entertained the opinion I have now advanced with respect to fever long before I had the pleasure of reading his S «■* valuable work; and am much inclined to suspect, that our ideas on this point are not exactly the same. He says, for in- stance, in his preface, page 13. “ The doctrine here contended for, namely, that fever consists essentially in topical inflam¬ mation of the brain, or its membranes, he. is an aberration from the sentiment I am disposed to adopt. I believe it to be an affection of the brain itself, wholly and solely, and no more connected with the membranes of the brainr than the pleura, or peritonaeum; and 1 am surprised such an accurate reasoner should be led to entertain an opinion so repugnant, as it ap¬ pears to me, to the conclusion he wishes to establish. I agree with him, that all the phenomena of fevers, and of all fevers, are referable to a disordered state of the brain ; but not to the o mem- /](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31877138_0031.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
