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

  • Webster, Charles, 1750-1795.
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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    are eafily cured. Mercury, and opium when it fucceeds, feem to put the ftomach in a pe¬ culiar ftate, fomewhat, perhaps, like that of infancy, and the falivation does not ap¬ pear to be from abforption any more than when it occurs from an emetic, pregnancy, or worms; or than giddinefs is when it arifes from the ufe of hemlock. Inflammation by muftard, &c. does not excite ftrangury, as cantharides are apt to do. It often ceafes the moment the blifter is removed, the effedt of the imprefiion is allayed by a poultice, or the ftomach is foothed by a diluent, or by camphorated oil applied to the furface. Cantharides in¬ ternally relieve paralytic ftrangury, and in¬ continence of urine ; ftrangury frequently occurs from affedtions of the ftomach, as gaftritis; and the uva urfi, alkali, or fuper- carbonated alkali, whofe effects feem chiefly confined to the ftomach, occafionally re¬ lieve even fits of the Atone. Contagions