The chronic disorders of the digestive tube / by W.W. Van Valzah.

  • Van Valzah, William W. (William Ward), 1849-1929.
Date:
1893
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Credit: The chronic disorders of the digestive tube / by W.W. Van Valzah. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    supersensitive ends of the vagus by the food. The inadequacy is uol due to a gastric Lesion, but to tubercular toxaemia. Hydrochloric superacidity sometimes aids in the preparation of the nutritive soil. Gastritis with a raw and fiery tongue, an- orexia, ami diarrhoea is the form which belongs to advanced phthisis. Chronic digestive disorder, with and without a Lesion of the mucous membrane, -'•.ins to be the most useful general classification. However closely dyspepsia, in the end, may be associated with errors in diet, the derangement of 11 it- process of digestion is nearly always due, iii the beginning, to disturbance of cell secretion or to im- paired muscular movements. There is no Lesion of the mucous membrane. Ih'iic- dyspepsia may be briefly defined as gastric insufficiency without al- tera! inn of structure. The impaired movements and defective secretion are the local manifestations of a constitutional state. Who would find the cause of dyspepsia must look beyond the stomach to the thin and im- pure blood, to the weak and tired nerve centres, to impaired cell activity throughout the body. Per- verted secretion is often the result of defective cell nutrition. The fault may lie in the lack of tissue- forming material in the blood; or this important nutritive fluid may be surcharged with the pro ducts of defective metabolism, or with poisonous materia] absorbed from the alimentary canal or left in the circulation in hepatic or renal insuffi- ciency. Thus we find it in the anaemias, chloro- sis. p>ut. chronic rheumatism, lithaemia, malaria. syphilis, and chronic nephritis ; or it may prove to
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