An enquiry into the nature causes and method of cure of nervous disorders : in a letter to a friend.

  • Alexander Thomson
Date:
1782
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Credit: An enquiry into the nature causes and method of cure of nervous disorders : in a letter to a friend. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ( *5 ) in the nervous fyftem, derives its origin from the ftomach and bowels, is an opi- nion ftrongly confirmed by the texture and offices of thofe parts. Furnifhed with numerous branches of nerves, they are extremely fufceptihle of irritation ; to which they are alfo paiticularly ex- pofed from the weight or refiftance of the food, its occafional acrimony, and the ffimulating nature of the galfric fluids, rendered yet more acrimonious by vitiated digeftion* At the beginning of the diforder, be- fore the patient has either been cautioned by the phyfician, or inffrucfed by experi- ence, to abftain from a hearty fupper, it is not uncommon for this indulgence to be fucceeded, in the night, by an op- preffion about the heart and flomach. This ffate is frequently accompanied with a convulfive motion of the tongue and jaws; during which the former lolls out.
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