Digestion : the passport to health / by Alfred Wright.

  • Wright, Alfred.
Date:
[1883?]
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Credit: Digestion : the passport to health / by Alfred Wright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    US to take into our mouths, and this highly-taxed and long-suffering viscus is made to receive, and expected to digest, vast quantities of solid and flu.id materials of varying quahty, v^hich, doubtless, it would be far better for its health if it were never called upon to dispose of. It is a fact, which cannot be disputed, that in all diseases, whether they be mild or severe, the digestive organs are always more or less impaired. It is true that this may be a symiDtom, but more often it will be found to be a cause of what is manifested further away.).' Therefore, in the treatment of every class of disease, I con- tend that the condition of the digestive system especially should first engage the attention of the physician ; for how is this drug, or that so-called remedy, to have its effect unless the stomach, by whose aid you transmit the drug or remedy, is in a state of health to be able to perform the duties you demand from it ? It is the common practice, at least in England, for patients who are sufferers from disorders such as affections of the heart,