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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    L 57 ] Contagions, whether marfhy, human, or fpecific, are fometimes traced to fmells, as a cadaverous one, a heavy earthy one, that of the confluent fmaii-pox, dyfenteric ftools; or they may induce the febrile ftate, the only fteady chara£ter of which Is weaknefs, though the impreffion do not juft excite the ftate of fenfation. It may be in a way fimilar to what happens in idiofyncrafies in regard to cheefe, a cat, &c. or that of the infenfible action of various irritations, as of worms. A gentleman who cannot bear being in a room where there is any cheefe, though he does not fee or fmell it in the leaft, inftantly feels a fenfe of weak¬ nefs, after fome time, ficknefs with a cold fweat, and faints if he endeavour to brave it. In this way contagion may, through the organ of fmell, affedt the ftomach and lyftem. Inoculated, it produces the fpecific ftate, inflammation and fup- puration, -and in the cafe of fm all-pox without