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

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    duction of pain on any attempt to swallow solid food. This pain has something peculiar in its nature, and is described by the patient, as very different from what is generally understood by the word pain. It is a sort of tensive circum- scribed sensation about the pit of the stomach, striking through to the back, producing a feeling of incipient suffocation. This continues till the food is rejected, which is done by an effort very unlike vomiting. It seems to approach nearer to that effort which occasions hiccup. After this rejection of the food, the patient obtains relief. The body becomes very much emacia- ted, often to such a degree, that a tumor sur- rounding the Cardia may be discovered by a minute investigation in the region of the Stomach. A stricture of the Pylorus may be dis- tinguished from stricture of the Cardia, by the food readily passing in'o the Stomach without occasioning pain; and when it is thrown up, it is by vomiting, not by the