On the Organic Diseases and Functional Disorders of the Stomach (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1856 Excerpt: ...in simple stricture of the pylorus--so complete that a probe could scarcely be passed through. There was no thickening nor any other indication of malignant disease, and every other organ of the body was sound. It appears from the preceding cases, and many similar ones on record, that the peculiarity of disorder we are considering consists in this, that the secretions of the stomach, which seem to be usually more abundant than natural, undergo or excite in the food, in the stomach and after they have been thrown up from it, a fermentation which is attended with the evolution of carbonic acid and with the production of torulae and sarcinaj, and which leads to the formation of acetic acid. The production of the disorder seems to require that there shall be some condition which prevents the stomach from completely or readily emptying itself. The disorder may occur in young persons, and exist for a short time, as in one of the cases related by Mr. Busk, and in a case that has been recorded by Dr. Bence Jones, in which it was noticed a short time before death in a boy of fourteen, who died of peritonitis and granular disease of the kidney; but it has been most frequently noticed in men who have reached middle age, --persons more liable than any others to simple stricture and cancer of the pylorus and to other diseases which prevent the stomach from completely emptying itself, --and in such persons the malady is usually of long duration and may, indeed, continue to the end of life. The appetite is generally good, but the indulgence of it is followed by flatulent distention of the stomach, attended by a sense of burning or other uneasiness, which, when an ulcer of the stomach exists, sometimes amounts to almost agonizing pain. When the disorder ia slight, the heartb.