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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    ,[ 33 ] torn hi proportion to this fenfibility of the flomach. Impreffions differ not only in kind, but in degree, and are powerful, being lefs refilled, as they are fudden. Strong ones, as eme¬ tics, warm water, &c. a£t chiefly on the flomach, while weak ones, fuch as do not even naufeate, and have little fenfible qua* lity, as fmall dofes of emetics, warm water, abforhents, farfaparilla, entire muflard-feed, and oxyds, affeCt the remotefl parts, and are much ufed in indigeflion, nervous dif- eafes, paflive difcharges, and ulcers. A remedy or dofe to the unaccuflomed, ope¬ rates like an unexpected blow or event, with proportional force; a ftrong impreffion on the fyrface affedls the part chiefly, while tickling, a fcratch, dentition, a tranl- planted tooth, and other feemingly weak but peculiar impreffions, affedt the flomach and fyflem confiderably. JLxternal