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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    the liver, the kidneys, the lungs, &c., or such complaints as gout, rheumatism, throat affections, and a host of others, to seek for rehef at the hands of a phy- sician who has given one or other of these aihnents his whole and undivided attention and study. There can be no doubt that in a great number of cases the patients are well rewarded for their confidence; that in many instances great rehef is obtained, and, in a few, a complete cure may be effected. Yet, unfortunately, these speciahsts are too apt to look at the dis- order they are called upon to treat from one point of view only, and the conse- quence is that a large number of sufferers do not gain that benefit which they ought assuredly to receive at the hands of an otherwise clever and skilful physician, because the condition of that most im- portant ^ organ of all — the stomach—is overlooked at the onset. But, if the state of that viscus were first carefully made out, it would probably be found that it was able but very imperfectly to perform the functions of ordinary digestion; surely then it should