First lines of the practice of physic (Volume 2).

  • William Cullen
Date:
1805
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    The cases of syncope depending on the first set of cau* ses, (1174.) and whose operation I have endeavored to ex- plain in 1177. et seq. I hold to be generally curable, either by avoiding the several occasional causes there pointed out, or by correcting the predisponent causes (1184.) The lat- ter, I think, may generally be done by correcting the debi- lity or mobility of the system, by the means which I have already had occasion to point out in another place.* CHAPTER II. OF DYSPEPSIA, OR INDIGESTION. 1190.] A WANT of appetite, a squeamishness, some- jLX. times a vomiting, sudden and transient dis- tentions of the stomach, eructations of various kinds, heart- burns, pains in the region of the stomach, and a bound belly, are symptoms which frequently concur in the same persons and therefore may be presumed to depend upon one and the same proximate cause. In both views, there- fore, they may be considered as forming one and the same disease, to which we have given the appellation of Dys- pepsia, set at the head of this chapter. 1191.] But as this disease is also frequently a secondary and sympathic affection, so the symptoms above-mentioned are often joined with many others ; and this has given oc- casion to a very confused and undetermined description of it, under the general title of Nervous Diseases, or under that of Chronic Weakness. It is proper, however, to dis- tinguish them ; and I apprehend the symptoms enumerated above are those essential to the idiopathic affection I am now to treat of. 1192.] It is indeed to be particular!}' observed, that these symptoms are often truly accompanied with a certain state of mind which may be considered as a part of the idiopathic affection : but I shall take no further notice of this symptom in the present chapter, as it will be fully and more properly considered in the next, under the title of Hypochondriasis. 1193.] That there is a distinct disease attended always with the greater part of the above symptoms, is rendered very probable by this, that all these several symptoms may * See article 217, fcc.
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