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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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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    without predifpofition, the ffomach does not yield too much, and its energy is kept up by cold on the furface, fo that a flight eruption happens fometimes without fever. Heat on a part feems to increafe the vario- lous ftate of veflel. Cool air on the furface recovers perfons from the ftate induced by carbonic., azotic, and other noxious airs, the flrft fymptom of which is vomiting; from fyncope, and from the ftill-born ftate, the firft exertion from which is feen to be about the region of the ftomach ; and the cold feems to operate, as in difcharges of blood, by exciting the ftomach from its paflive ftate. Affections of the ftomach, as ob- ferved, mark fever in its attack, progrefs, remiflion, crifis, and cure ; all its caufes af- feCt the ftomach; it has no lymptom but what an immediate application to the fto- mach may produce and its evacuation re- move ; and it is often prevented and cured by remedies affeCting only that organ. Its