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.

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    susceptibility in the juvenile constitution ; we have abundant reason to conclude that often, very often indeed, the brain is excited into morbid action, through it’s sympathy with the previous morbid condition of the digestive organs. The work of Dr. Davis presents a strong confirmation of the importance of Dr. Abercrombie’s remark, quoted by me at page 110, in regard to the greater prospect of curing the disease in those instances, which approach more nearly to the character of active inflammation. But that those cases, the symptoms of which, in a subacute and insidious form, present externally a character decidedly different from that exhibited by the examples to which I have just referred, can be successfully treated on the principle that the disease is an acute inflammation of the brain, without any distinction whatever from that affection, as it is usually characterized, is yet to be demonstrated by the unbiassed observation and the practice of others. Q