Essay on indigestion; or morbid sensibility of the stomach and bowels, as the proximate cause or characteristic condition of dyspepsy, nervous irritability, mental despondency, hypochondriasis... / [James Johnson].

  • Johnson, James, 1777-1845
Date:
1831
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Credit: Essay on indigestion; or morbid sensibility of the stomach and bowels, as the proximate cause or characteristic condition of dyspepsy, nervous irritability, mental despondency, hypochondriasis... / [James Johnson]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Page Sect. V. Effects of Biliary Irritation on the Tongue, Eyes, Kidneys, &c 31 Distressing Sense of Debility, varying with the State of the Stomach 33 Tenderness at the Pit of the Stomach, a deceptive Symptom 34 Strictures on Dr. Philip’s Remarks on this Subject, and on the Or- ganic Diseases to which Indigestion is said to lead ih. Changes produced in the Mucous Membrane of the Stomach, by a long Continuance of Irritation there 42 Sect. VI. Sympathetic Affections of various Organs 44 of the Brain ih. of the Nerves of Sense, as of Sight and Hearing 46 ———■ of the Heart 47 of the Lungs 48 of various other Parts of the Body 49 Sympathy between the Nerves of the Stomach and Nervous System ib. MORBID SENSIBILITY OF THE STOMACH AND BOWELS, WITHOUT ANY OBVIOUS OR WELL-MARKED SYMPTOM OF DISORDER IN THOSE ORGANS THEMSELVES 53 Sect. VII. Physical Causes of this Morbid Sensibility 54 bad Air—want of Exercise—late Hours 56 Diet, the chief Physical Cause 57 Criteria of the injurious Effects of Diet 58 Drink, a powerful Physical Cause 59 Sect. VIII. Moral Causes of Morbid Sensibility, as Anxiety of Mind, &c 60 — Effects of Moral Causes exasperated by Food .... 62 Sect. IX. Nervous Irritability—Mental Despondency 63 Intimate Connexion between Mind and Mat- ter ih. Effects of Irritation of the Stomach on the Temper 64 Sect. X, Hypochondriasis,—Remarks on the Doctrines which have been broached respecting this distressing Malady 66 Graphic Sketch of this Disease 70 Symptoms of its early Approach 72 —: Remarkable Case of Hypochondriasis 74 TREATMENT OF MORBID SENSIBILITY OF THE STOMACH AND BOWELS, DIETETIC, MEDICINAL, AND MORAL. DIETETIC TREATMENT. Sect. XI. Chief Indication, the Removal of the Sources of Irritation 78