Practical observations on disorders of the stomach : with remarks on the use of the bile in promoting digestion / by George Rees, M.D.

  • Rees, George, 1776-1846.
Date:
1814
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Credit: Practical observations on disorders of the stomach : with remarks on the use of the bile in promoting digestion / by George Rees, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    applicable to cases where the remedies employed are certainly adequate to the cure, may with some propriety be advanced; but surely we are always liable to be misled, if we are acting on principles repugnant to the nature of the disease, and this has been the source of error in the pre- sent instance: hence the different vapours and gasses which have been exhibited with undi- minished expectation, though with uniform inefficacy, from the time of Hippocrates to the present day, all founded on the imagina- ry indication of excess of serum. Frankin- cense, and myrrh, and all the aromatic vegeta- bles of the East, have been successively resorted to, to counteract the supposed agency of this ex- citing cause; with equal alacrity practitioners have employed expectorants, demulcents, emol- lients, &c. but without success, and frequently with an evident aggravation of symptoms. It is only so far as they are adapted to strengthen the Stomach, to dispel flatulence, to correct acidity, and, in short, to obviate all the symptoms of dys- pepsia, that the medicines employed have been found to answer the purpose of the prescribes FINIS. M, Alien, Printer, Patergoster-Row, Loidon-