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

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    t *4 ] the bufly-coat, the inflammatory exudation,' the fuppuration, and the callus or oflifying arteries, fo as to regenerate deftroyed parts, fill cavities, and form ikin. On its Plate feems to depend that of the chyle, blood, iecretions, every foft and hard fibre, every organ and function of the fyflem, and inch is its importance, that it has been emphati¬ cally called the animal, the confcience of the body, and even fuppofed the feat of the foul.* During ordinary hunger, its power over the mufcles is diminiflied, which flate is called weaknefs ; there is a diminiflied aftion of the heart and arteries, particularly at their extremities, as appears from the weak and frequent pulfe, drynefs, palenefs, fhrinking, and lanknefs of the furface and features; diminiflied fecretion, as appears from the dry mouth and from the flaccid * Ariftotle, Vanhelmont, Mandevelle, Hunter. breafts (