Observations on indigestion: in which is satisfactorily shewn the efficacy of ipecacuan, in relieving this, as well as its connected train of complaints peculiar to the decline of life.

  • Daubenton, M. (Louis-Jean-Marie), 1716-1799.
Date:
1809
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Credit: Observations on indigestion: in which is satisfactorily shewn the efficacy of ipecacuan, in relieving this, as well as its connected train of complaints peculiar to the decline of life. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    such symptoms, in order to prevent other mala- dies of which they lay the foundation, and also to avoid that state of languor of which they are the source. Most people who lead a sedentary life, with- out being obliged to exercise some active employ- ment, complain of their digestion : they perceive the food lie heavy on the stomach after a meal. This uneasy sensation is accompanied with a sort of torpor, which impedes the functions of the body and obscures the mind: this state of unea- siness gradually subsides, the coiporeal powers resume their energy, and communicate to the stomach sufficient force to overcome the obstacle opposed to it: the progress of its action mani- fests itself by the quantity of air it causes to be discharged from the mouth, the escape of which is often accompanied with noise. Although this air has in general neither taste nor smell, it is not however precisely the same * • as that of the atmosphere; chemists suppose it to be a mixture cf fixed and plilogisticated air, of