A treatise on neuralgic diseases, dependent upon irritation of the spinal marrow and ganglia of the sympathetic nerve / By Thomas Pridgin Teale.

  • Teale, Thomas Pridgin, 1801?-1867.
Date:
1830
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Credit: A treatise on neuralgic diseases, dependent upon irritation of the spinal marrow and ganglia of the sympathetic nerve / By Thomas Pridgin Teale. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the cervical ganglia, the most beneficial results will, in the generality of cases, be obtained. NEURALGIA OF THE STOMACH. Various diseases are included under the terms dys- pepsia, indigestion, and stomach complaint, and depend upon different morbid conditions of the stomach. Per- haps the most frequent cause of these complaints is chronic gastritis, under which I would include all the varieties of chronic irritation and chronic inflammation of the stomach, regarding these terms as denoting different grades of the same affection. This form of dyspepsia usually yields to the employment of leeches to the epigastrium, and moderate abstinence; and when the sensibility of the stomach is morbidly increased, opium or prussic acid in small doses are often given with advantage. A state of simple indigestion, appa- rently from mere atony of the stomach, is often ob- served during convalescence from other diseases; in this form of complaint the stomach appears to par- ticipate in the debility of the general system, and tonics, as quinine and other vegetable bitters, the mineral acids, &c. are influential in restoring the digestive powers. | ) There are, however, numerous other cases of stomach complaints, bearing considerable resemblance to the two forms already mentioned, which, nevertheless, are not remedied by the treatment found so beneficial in those affections. Leeches to the epigastrium and abstinence are of no avail; anodynes produce no permanent relief, tonics and astringents are inert; emetics and purgatives, particularly when in opposition to reason and common sense, their employment is persevered in for a great