A treatise on the sympathetic relation between the stomach and the brain ... in the causation and cure of diseases. With an appendix ... on certain points connected with the treatment of chronic disease and it's [sic] attendant debility / by Charles Wightman.

Date:
1840
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Credit: A treatise on the sympathetic relation between the stomach and the brain ... in the causation and cure of diseases. With an appendix ... on certain points connected with the treatment of chronic disease and it's [sic] attendant debility / by Charles Wightman. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    PREFACE. In the following pages I presume to offer to the Medical Profession, a short Treatise on what all will allow to be a most interesting and important subject, whatever shall be the opinion of those, who may peruse the treatise, of the manner in which that subject has been discussed. On gra- duating at Edinburgh in 1808, it was selected by me as that of my Inaugural Dissertation, which was entitled “ De Consensu Ventriculum inter et Cerebrum.” That dissertation having been the groundwork of the present treatise, my attention has been directed to the subject from a very early period. So important do I consider it, that it has long been to me a cause of much astonishment, that hitherto no specific treatise upon it has ex- isted in the English language. Indeed I was not aware that there was any extant in any language, until, in the 4th edition of Blumenbach’s Physi- ology translated by Dr. Elliotson, I perceived these notices at page 321;