The Dublin Journal of Medical and Chemical Science (Volume 8) (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: establishment of a complete and permanent cure; and as I shall have occasion to see the man, from time to time, for the purpose of introducing a bougie, I shall take a future opportunity of reporting farther on his condition. Art. III.?Observations on Diseases of the Stomach, the.it Sympathies, and Complications. By Langston Parker, M.R.C.S.L., (Birmingham.) There are certain affections of the stomach, which are sometimes independent of, and sometimes accompanied by inflammatory action, which have been appropriately termed by Dr. James Johnson morbid sensibility, and by the French pathologists, " neuroses des visceres." Much diversity of opinion exists as to the nature of these diseases and their treatment; some with " Broussais" and the pupils of his school attributing the whole class to gastric inflammation, whilst others, overlooking entirely the complication of such morbid action with the disease, condemn as highly detrimental the recourse to antiphlogistic re- remedies for their cure. The sources of decayed or impaired digestion are various, dependent either upon the undue quality or excessive quantity of the food taken, or upon disease in the tissues or secretions of the stomach itself. In addition to the proper coats of the stomach, each of which, in a state of disease, may be the source of impaired digestion, the vascular and nervous systems entering into the composition of the organ may be in this, as in all other parts, separately the seats of disease, which though they cannot be said strictly to be independent of each other in their morbid actions, nevertheless in certain states so far become so as to render the affection of one order of parts the predominant feature of the disease. I shall illustrate these diseases by a selection of cases, making those deducti...