Gastric Disturbances Research Articles

SHOULD ALCOHOL BE USED IN THE TREATMENT OF DISEASE?

[ABSTRACT.] After showing that: 1, alcohol is not a food; 2, does not promote digestion; 3, does cause gastric disturbances; 4, alcohol does not increase muscular strength nor promote physical or mental endurance, Dr. Didama continued: Observation in by-gone days and accurate recent experiments seem to establish these statements beyond successful contradiction. It is true that, from the time when the patriarch Noah indulged in the fermented juice of grapes which grew in his own vineyard, down to the latest newspaper advertisement, tradition has claimed that wine—alcoholic wine—not only makes glad the heart of man, but gives strength to the weary and heavy-laden, endurance to the sons of toil, consolation and joy to the broken-hearted; and brilliancy to the sluggish intellect. But the testimony of army officers, of insurance companies, railroad corporations, Arctic explorers, and even football and other fighters, is practically unanimous that total abstainers bear extremes of heat

NEPHRORRHAPHY FOR MOVABLE KIDNEY (LEFT).

J. P., 50 years old, sailor by occupation, married. Family history negative. Previous condition of health: He had typhoid fever when 4 or 5 years old. During the late war, while serving in the Navy, he was confined to his bed with rheumatism for nine months and at another time for four months. No history of tuberculosis in the family. He denies any syphilitic taint. He had malaria at about 20 years of age. Condition before operation: His present illness began about five years ago. Since then he has been annoyed by chronic inflammation of the bladder. He found it necessary to void his urine four or five times during the night and the act of micturition was accompanied by sensations of scalding or burning. His bowels have been constipated all the time, and he has slight gastric disturbance. About four years ago, slight spinal curvature began, being principally marked

SOME REMARKS ON ECZEMA OF CHILDREN.Read in the Section on Diseases of Children at the Forty-fifth Annual Meeting of the American Medical Association, held at Sun Francisco, June 5-8, 1894.

Infantile eczema is popularly known as milk crust, tooth rash, moist tetter, etc. The most frequent cause is, probably, a faulty assimilation of food. This may occur from disease or mental distress of the mother. In infants brought up by hand, or bottle fed, faulty diet may cause gastric disturbance and eczema may result. A scrofulous diathesis is, probably, a predisposing cause. Excessive friction, from too free use of a fine tooth comb or a hard brush to clean the head of dandruff, or excess of either natural or artificial heat may irritate the scalp and produce eczema. A collection of pimples slightly elevated above the surface is first noticed. The summit of the pimple is usually vesicular, and when broken by scratching, to relieve the intense itching which accompanies the eruption, discharges an irritating fluid, which causes the disease to spread, until not only the entire scalp may be

Creasote in Certain Gastric Disturbances

Creasote in Certain Gastric Disturbances

A COMBINED VISUAL AND ASTIGMATIC TEST-CARD OF WORDS MADE UP OF LETTERS CONFUSING TO THE ASTIGMATIC EYE---REMARKS ON ASTIGMATISM, CHARACTERISTIC MANNERISMS.

Read in Section on Ophthalmology, Otology and Laryngology of the American Medical Association, May, 1884, The influences of optical defects are three-fold; first, productive of vision less than normal; second, are productive of certain ocular diseases or render acute attacks of eye disease chronic by their presence; third, there are produced by their presence, headache, nervous symptoms, gastric disturbance, many cases of so-called biliousness and a chain of reflex symptoms due to the accommodative effort. Cases presenting a manifest defect of vision, seek relief by glasses, and are satisfied either partially or fully, as the manifest or total defect is corrected. In cases where ocular disease, or the form of trouble described under the third classification exists, accommodative effort may conceal the defect, which any of the mydriatics will expose and relieve the symptoms if they are the result of the optical condition of the eye; glasses are required to

Nervous Symptoms Secondary to Slight Gastric Disturbance

Nervous Symptoms Secondary to Slight Gastric Disturbance

On the Measurement of the Palate in Idiots and Imbeciles

There is a general idea expressed in text-books, and more or less freely asserted in practice, but which I shall prove to be a fallacy, that a high-arched palate is so frequently met with in idiocy and imbecility that it may be taken as a sign of their existence. Indeed, when a case of this kind is brought forward the patient is made to open his mouth, under the conviction that a high palate will be found as certainly as a superficial alteration of the tongue in gastric disturbance. We shall see that the connection is an accidental one; and there is, in reality, no relationship between the development of the intellect and the height and width of the palate. If we consider that the bones of the cranium are developed in a different manner from those of the face, and that ossification at the base is complete long before that of the bones forming the palate, it is clear that there can be no primâ facie reason for thinking that because a person has an imperfect brain he should therefore have an imperfect palate; yet such an interdependence is held. It is quite true that a constitutional taint, such as rickets or syphilis, which affects the ossification of the bones generally and the cranial sutures, would probably affect the palatine bones, and hence it is that many idiots and imbeciles are found to have high or imperfect palates: but on the other hand some modifying taint may dwarf the height of the body, may affect the shape of the head to such an extent as to make an idiot of the microcephalic type, and yet leave the palate untouched, perfect in all conditions of width, height, number, quality, and regularity of teeth.