Facts, tending to show the connection of the stomach with life, disease, and recovery / by Charles Webster.

  • Webster, Charles, 1750-1795.
Date:
1793
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Facts, tending to show the connection of the stomach with life, disease, and recovery / by Charles Webster. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    { * } % excefs, defedt, or peculiarity of impreflion % recover from various morbid Hates; rege- 7 o nerate lofl fubflance ; eeafe at length to an- J O fwer impreflions, and fpontaneoully fe£a- rate into their elements, which form new combinations in nature. In an animal, which, befides a Ho- mach, the feat of the firH afiimilation and limple life, has nerves and brain, the me- dium of fenfation and thought, the energy of which is encreafed by a heart and lungs; the aflimilating, moving, fentient, and thinking powers become parts of one whole, neceflary to the adtion and eftedt of one ano-« ther, adting as it were in a circle, modify- ing and improving the lyHem, in which the fmallefl pundture producing eontradlility, pain, and haemorrage, feems to fhew that life, tnind, and heart exiH in every point. Cold-blooded animals, whofe circulation is languid, and refpiration occafional, live and move for feveral hours without brain, heart,