A full and accurate account of the new method of curing dyspepsia : discovered and practised by O. Halsted : with some observations on diseases of the digestive organs.

  • Halsted, O. (Oliver)
Date:
1830
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Credit: A full and accurate account of the new method of curing dyspepsia : discovered and practised by O. Halsted : with some observations on diseases of the digestive organs. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    speak of the diseases that arc apt to be con- founded with dyspepsia. Although oftentimes the disease remains stationary for years, with very little in- crease or diminution of the symptoms, yet sometimes its progress is fearfully rapid. When this happens, all the symptoms be- come more aggravated in their character. The emaciation, at first not very great, now becomes excessive. Extreme debility pre- vents the patient from taking his accustomed exercise; and at length confines him entire- ly to his bed. So completely enfeebled are the powers of the stomach, that the most simple food, taken in the smallest quanti- ties, produces the greatest distress of a surfeit. The faculties of the mind seem also prostrated with the energies of the body. An extreme nervous agitation, ren- dering the patient susceptible to the slight- est impression, or else a state of torpor, and apathy, in which the faculties seem completely benumbed, like the second