Facts, tending to show the connection of the stomach with life, disease, and recovery / by Charles Webster.

  • Charles Webster
Date:
1793
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Facts, tending to show the connection of the stomach with life, disease, and recovery / by Charles Webster. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    [ 45 ] temperature inducing or relieving various difeafes, and fits of difeafe of which the ftomach is the feat*. A warm fomenta- tion relieves the fenfe of heat, handling fnow occafions it, an irritation as from a thorn produces it, and an irritation in the ftomach occafions alternations of heat and cold. Human heat is between 320 and 156°, the two coagulating points ; and the agreeable is, exclufively of habit, between 320 and the human heat. In tropical and polar climates the appetite is keen, and the ffo- mach refills the power of intoxicating liquors and of contagion. Seeds, eggs, im- perfedt and young animals and maniacs, being, as it were, all flomach, bear the ef- ✓ fedts of heat and cold remarkably. Certain degrees of heat and cold difpofe *' Mr. Farquhar mentions a patient, who, fince the ufe of ice for burns, has continued free for a confiderable time from hyllerical complaints of long Handing. to
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