Management of the organs of digestion, in health and in disease / by Herbert Mayo.

  • Mayo, Herbert, 1796-1852.
Date:
1840
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Credit: Management of the organs of digestion, in health and in disease / by Herbert Mayo. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    MANAGEMENT OF THE STOMACH. pulse which varies from twenty-one to twenty-nine beats in a minute, is in perfect health, with this drawback,—that he has had two epileptic fits, one severe, the other transient, and several threaten- ings. The worry of business in which he is en- gaged, the mental excitement and exhaustion con- sequent upon it, are attended in him with a sensa- tion that he will lose himself, which stimulants and quiet, when at the worst, have removed. In his ordinary habits, this gentleman does not feel himself secure (and as he has learned by experience with reason), unless he takes a cup of tea and a slice of bread and butter in bed before rising, his hour of rising being seven, and his subsequent breakfast-hour nine. After more excitement of business than usual the day before, he adds some brandy to his dose of tea, of the necessity of which his feelings of greater depression and physical alarm on waking now advertise him. Such a case, in which the tone of the heart and of the brain have been singularly lowered, conveys, indeed, a great deal more than I have advanced it to illustrate, but it strikingly exemplifies the principle, that food may be used, in fitting circumstances, as a direct sti- mulant. (1837.) This gentleman is now (1840) in stronger and firmer health; his pulse has risen to thirty to thirty-four beats in a minute. A full narrative of his case, which combines several points of interest, is given in a paper on Instances of stoic pulse,