A practical treatise on various diseases of the abdominal visceria [sic] / by Christopher Robert Pemberton, M.D. F.R.S.

  • Pemberton, Christopher Robert, 1765-1822.
Date:
1814
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    This is one method, and that the more common one, of endeavoring to destroy the abundant quantity of grastric acid. Sometimes however, it abounds so much, that a grater quantity of alkali may be rquired to render it inert, than can with propriety be administered internally. In which case, complete relief is frequently obtained from the very opposite treat- ment, namely, by a more powerful acid.* It has been observed, that the addition of a very small quantity of any of the mineral acids, will immediately put a stgp to the acetous fer- mentation. Now, although there is no acid in a healthy stomach,f yet, when its powers have by any means been debilitated or injured, a fermeu- * Calor lecti, equitatio, et Elixir vitrioli nauseam hesterni Jacchi abigunt. Home Princip : Medicin: Sect : II. 5. See Heberden Comment; Cap. 52. p. 230. Again, Potus acidi, non semper nocent jcgris acore ventriculi laborantibus, nonnunquam etiam auxilio sunt. Heb. Comm. Cap. 97. p. 391. Again, Acidum vitriolicum brevi ardorcm ventriculi sanavit. Heb. Coram. Cap. 97. p. 392. et Id. Cap. 99. p. 405. f Imo ex observatione anatomica constat acidum plane nul- lum in stomacho rite se habente hospitari. Mayow Tract. 4. p, 53. Ed : Oxon : 1674. 18