The stomach in its morbid state; being a practical inquiry into the nature and treatment of diseases of that organ, and into the influence they exercise upon the origin, progress, and termination of diseases of the liver, heart, lungs, and brain / [Langston Parker].

  • Parker, Langston, 1805?-1871.
Date:
1838
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Credit: The stomach in its morbid state; being a practical inquiry into the nature and treatment of diseases of that organ, and into the influence they exercise upon the origin, progress, and termination of diseases of the liver, heart, lungs, and brain / [Langston Parker]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    coats. Andral believes that true inflammation of the mucous membrane of the stomach is seldom unaccompanied by thickening. The degree of local or constitutional disturbance which attends a superabundance of blood in the mucous coat of the stomach, will depend upon the degree of congestion and its extent, whether it be confined to small patches of redness, or extend to a general vascu- lar fulness of the whole mucous membrane ; in the former instance the symptoms would be slight local ones ; in the latter, a general state of constitutional disturbance would be present. This state of stomach is commonly observed at the commencement both of eruptive and continued fevers; it accompanies and complicates almost all inflammatory diseases. The local symptoms accompanying this form of disease in the stomach are commonly very slight; they sometimes disappear in a short time, and are quickly renewed from any fresh source of irri- tation. This, in Andral’s opinion, stamps it at once as a disease distinct from inflammation. The following case exhibits its most simple and common form :— A gentleman, accustomed to live freely and indulge in the use of malt liquors, became troubled, after indulgence, with nausea, acidity, and distension after food in the stomach and bowels. The tongue was moist and coated. He had no head-ache, nor any other sympathetic affection. The ordinary stomach medicines I employ (referred to in the chapter on treatment) cured the patient in twenty-four hours. | The ease with which the first attacks of gastric irritation are commonly removed induces persons to believe that the disease is of little consequence, and that repeated attacks occasion no further inconvenience or evil than that felt during their continuance ; but it must be remembered that these repeated attacks of irritation,