A treatise on the sympathetic relation between the stomach and the brain ... in the causation and cure of diseases. With an appendix ... on certain points connected with the treatment of chronic disease and it's [sic] attendant debility / by Charles Wightman.

Date:
1840
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Credit: A treatise on the sympathetic relation between the stomach and the brain ... in the causation and cure of diseases. With an appendix ... on certain points connected with the treatment of chronic disease and it's [sic] attendant debility / by Charles Wightman. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    A TREATISE ON THE SYMPATHETIC RELATION BETWEEN THE STOMACH AND THE BRAIN, AND, THROUGHOUT, BETWEEN THE DIGESTIVE AND THE NERVOUS SYSTEMS, IN THE CAUSATION AND CURE OF DISEASES. INTRODUCTION. That a most intimate sympathy exists between the Stomach and the Brain, is a fact with which all medical practitioners must be conversant. So wonderful, indeed, and so powerful is the mutual influence of these organs upon each other, that seldom is either of them morbidly affected, without the other at the same time suffering se- verely. It also frequently happens, that diseases which have their seat in the one, manifest them- selves by morbid symptoms in the other; and thus, from the neglect of a due investigation of the case, mistakes have at times been committed, especially by the superficial observer; and dis- B