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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    and chief agents of digestion, to the perform¬ ing of which the liver is only an humble aux¬ iliary, The bile may be wholly obstructed for many years, and yet nutrition will proceed* I have seen cases of jaundice, of many years duration, yield to simple tonics, aperients, and regular exercise, after the complete failure of long mercurial courses. In these instances, as the persons for many years afterwards en¬ joyed good health, a lesion of structure in any viscus cannot be supposed to have occurred. The histories related by Mr. Abernethy ap- ✓ pear to me to shew the bile may be unhealthy or vitiated without disease of the liver. Dis¬ ordered organs should be carefully distin¬ guished, he says, from lesions of them. If to the existence of pain in the epigastric or hy¬ pochondriac region be superadded a sallow complexion, and dark-coloured or black of¬ fensive motions, the patient is too commonly pronounced to have a diseased liver, and im¬ mediately recourse is had to mercury, to attack it vi et armis, and not unfrequently, by the