A treatise on dyspepia; or, indigistion / [James Woodforde].

  • Woodforde, James.
Date:
1820
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Credit: A treatise on dyspepia; or, indigistion / [James Woodforde]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    piration are occasioned by the distension of the stomach impeding the descent of the dia¬ phragm. The state of the mind or the de¬ pression of the spirits so constant in Dyspepsia is produced by a derangement of the chylo- poictic organs. The sympathy between the brain and the stomach, or the debility com¬ municated to the former from the latter, gives a good explanation of the cause. Costiveness arises from atony, torpor, or want of due action in the intestines. Diarrhoea proceeds from irritation, acrimony, and a preternatural irri¬ tability of the intestines. Watching, or want of sleep, seems to be occasioned by the presence of some irritating material in the primae vise. • 1 * ; Q i ' 2 , * f CURE. Within the last thirty years it has been the fashion to consider the liver as the Jons et origo of almost all diseases, not only of the abdomen, but also of other parts, so that no-. thing is more common than to hear, not only