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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    muscular pain. The attack may take even a more serious form, being sometimes accompanied by smart fever, intermitting with shivering; and, in some very severe cases, dehrium; while the low spirits vary from sHght ill-humour to extreme melan- choly, sometimes leading the patient to the contemplation, or even the commission, of suicide. But while enumerating the foregoing local and general disturbances, which I have said may be indicative of, or associated with, disordered digestion, I do not mean to imply, let it be understood, that the whole of them attack every sufferer. Indeed, there is no disease, the manifes- tations of which are less uniform ; some of the patients may have pain and no sickness, and vice versa; while in others the headache, or the mental depression, \0T both, may predominate. We must not either lose sight of the fact that all or part of the symptoms we have just mentioned may also point to the presence of something far more serious than dyspepsia, since they, one and all,