Practical observations on disorders of the stomach : with remarks on the use of the bile in promoting digestion / by George Rees, M.D.

  • Rees, George, 1776-1846.
Date:
1814
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Credit: Practical observations on disorders of the stomach : with remarks on the use of the bile in promoting digestion / by George Rees, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    culiarities of the constitution, but commonly makes its attack in the following manner. The patient feels cold and chilly, with a slight nausea and sickness, sometimes a sense of emp- tiness in the Stomach, unaccompanied by nausea. The pain in the head is at first slight and scarce- ly perceptible, but gradually increases, and attains its acme about two or three o'clock in the after- noon, accompanied with a throbbing in the tem- ples, which the least motion aggravates, and which a sudden turn of the head would render almost insupportable. This pain is frequently confined to one eye, of one side of the head; and the patient feels it difficult to raise the eye-lid, so as to express the natural vivaeity of the countenance. The face becomes cold and contracted, and the coldness of the extremities concurs with this in testifying, that the circulation is languid, and the vital ener- gies depressed ; yet notwithstanding these gene- ral appearances of debility, it would seem as if the powers of the sensorium were increased; for it is worthy of remark, that the operations of the mind go on with more than common activity, though the patient is at the same time incapaci- tated from carrying his purposes into effect: even those who are subject to habitual despondency, feel for the time raised above the ordinary tem- per