On gastrodynia / by W.H. Day.

  • Day, William Henry, 1830-1907.
Date:
1867
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Credit: On gastrodynia / by W.H. Day. 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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    the dilute nitric acid, and ten minims of the dilute hydrochloric acid, in an ounce of water—an hour before meals. These acids now and then greatly aggravate the pain of gastrodynia. If the bowels are costive, a pill of Barbadoes aloes, capsicum, and quinine, given daily, before dinner, will hasten the cure. For any remedy to be of benefit in a complaint like gastrodynia, it must strike deeper than mere alleviation. There is perhaps scarcely any form or degree of this affection which will not yield for the time being to some one or other of the numerous drugs at our disposal, but no cure can be hoped for unless we aim at the root of the malady. Though most cases of gastric pain come under the designation of gastrodynia, I wish to restrict the term as much as possible to genuine neuralgic pain, where the tongue is clean and pallid, and there is little or no flatulence, where the patient in its most severe forms is struck down by a fixed and continuous pain, with a feeble pulse, a pale countenance, and a clammy skin, and the symptoms approach some degree of collapse. This, however, is only observed in the most severe cases. Among remedies, none aie so reliable as the preparations of iron in their most soluble form, given with the utmost care as regards dose and combination, and the delicate state of the