Litchfield enquirer., 1857-07-16

Chronic disease of the stomach produces disease fn other oroar through the agency Of lie BeTvous sys tenn the disturbance of created 6y diseased noiuts in the stomach, is carried along the nerves to some near organ will! which il has nerve coamnnis csfiUR and the disease there sci up IS said 10 he sympathetic disease, or the organ IS said to be dariy affected. As instance of this sympathy. person receiving blow nPon the heao the blow IS fol- wed almost immediately by vomiiing-th. stomach symr athses with The disturbed or irrated brain. Agan any indgestlble i,er taken the stomach produces headachein this the brain sympathises with the stomach
 This extension Of disease, which takes place along through these nerves is either OCCASIONAL PERMA- NsNr and the frequent repetition of he former produce the latterfor instance, Dyspepsia, a small point of Infamnatory action of the stomach, produces head. ache, zziness sleepessness tulness the blood sells of the brain, flushed face, Sc. These morbid symptoms will continue for longer oy shorter period. die away, and disarpear, and afer lutle time again hence the term OCCASIONAL The intervals be- tween these recurfences become less and less distinct until last the brain becomes permanently involved tnnd insanity, apopectic para!yuc congestion, im- becilty and death is the result-henco the MANENT. ,--s- z<
 And Lere would take occasion to advertto the very gedf Importance of atending in time these primary, set up as warning, speaking plainly and orcibly to fbe patient that unless core ct and proper tmen he at once instituted, matter of how mild form they may at first appear, there is imminent danger of ihe brain or some other vital organ becoming rerma- nenGy involved. These early g, mptoms are too tre- quenty overlooked orLegarded as some rifng disease i ou taking no thought of the increasing frequency CT vehemence of those "trihng complaints" until at last, other and important organs, he brain, perhaps or the lungs or the heart, the lver or some other organ have be .ome almost irremediably involved Then is that the patient. upon reflection, hnds that his disease has long be creeping upon him. gaining amo<, impercep,iby in intensity until some phase of the disease suddenly awakens him 10 notions of his true situation. His friends perhaps discover that h:s ed and of he poor patient is hurried to mad house, there be treated with the straight jacket blsers to the snaven scalp, &c., and thought, perhaps taken by the medical attendant, or neatment instituted for trouble, ,,,s ie,1 viz., T DISEASE OF THE STOMACH. w
 perhapS instead of ermna'ins in insanity. very blood 10 wards the brain last produces palsy of
 limb from partial pressure of the brain, palsy ofhe portion of the bran and the paor patient E obi ged. perhaps submit the blnod-dsgorging operation of ilie lancet, shaved and blistered scalp burnt and bsicred back-b, me, stimulating and bnrn,ne emhroca- tins, with yeIy little good and probably with Thought the part u the attending physician of the s ffsr fEaE o SF % hs 4 hs dease 1 Perhaps, instead of either of he above fermina tons, very much less serious result is the cansequenee- perhaps merely pain ,he shoulder or head and Tic Do!oueux of the face; and lhls Tic Do'oure ux the poor patient down with 'hc cii.ome iron, ursc- nlc, Sc, and be tormented wrh burning bsters and the ke-,he attending physician regarding it, per haps, simply local affecting, entirety losing sight of he fact that the lining membrane of e stonlac and liver IS one continuous member and also Of the
 irsr great cause and continuance of these palms, viz, Disease of the Stomach, propagatlng disease m the v. er aud the liver in is turn extending its irritation, nd producing pain in rhe shoulder, head and face How Iirequeny has rain in the right shonder' been looked npon, named and treated case of liver disease ;"
 naction o! the ver," lvague and unmea hing terh,, and in great majority of cases without ahy benefit az. I crung from the treatment; and with how much more success might these called :" hver diseases' have been ed had the true pathology of the case-the true of the disease m fac1, TIE DISEASE, bren properly undcrstood-il they had been regarded the consequence of disease of he somach producing nor bid acton in ihe liver and the latter turn send ing its irritation ;he shoulder face and head Per. haps, nse ad of either of the above examinations taking place, much more common one exhibits ltsclf viz,
 diseGs SC of the lungs There common oc cur-
 as disease of he nnes being produced by sease of the stomach; in st sease of the stomach ca mo,
 long exist without producing disease of the lungs, and there case o diseased lungs but that as produced bv dsea of the digestive The dis ease called Pulmonary Consumption has iis origin in disease of the stomach, and from no other source. From the close connection between the stDmac oh and the lungs the latter is constant recipient of al
 irritation from the stomach, which tends 10 the form. ! tion of uberclcs, the commencement of Pnlmnnary Consumption-frs,, by only inducing a diseased of the air tubes, but also by setting up sympa- thetic irritation in the spongy tissue Of the lung and secondly, by producing morbid state of the blood in consequence of imperfect digestion of food by the n- famed stonach.e Thus idea, am well aware, ns re- gards the cause o Consumption is at variance with the of the wise heads "f the profession, but does make it any the less There are as wise heads any in the profession who have promulgated lhe doctrine for years; and years ago satisfied
 from my own observation. that Consumption had as origin in disease of the s..mach, and tha: in
 few isolated cases, but in every instance; and defy any physician 10 point 10 case of Pulmonary Con. sumption that upon close inquiry and minute examina tou, II could not be found, beyond dpGbt, that lhe pa,,ent had lahoring under disased d.
 gestive organs There is disease so much dreaded or looked upon with so much horror, coiisdm pt,
 All sorts oI specifies have been invented for ils have been compounded. and the poor suft sent l almost every of tho habitabe globe for relief and al but to, very li,sie purpose Physcians take rfo oa,ill hoc sod ,bs
 md he patient now looks only for temporary and in> 1 siQnifcant relief And why is this7 Why all this 1 nsisefy aud snferng-ol this medical labor va in ? Simply from miscencep lion regards tho true q loi disesse, viz, DISEASE OF THE DIGESTIVE
 Cons1mpion is as capable of being cured as almost the Msgs are hot too much consumed 1tis impossible ereate new lungs or to make then, grow again and occupy the place of the lung hat has been des troycd and annihilaed by uceraion suppuraiion and expec,oratoh; and when sutcient o the lung remains
 the pup0ss of ,sr % S no. Gny further de- sion of the remaining portion of the lung may be broueh about. Facts of cases of Pulmonary Co1sanip. lion having been cured. and fhc subject atefwards living to good old age have been too oien shown by post morstn examination to admit; nowa. .dayss Of single doubt. Bu, u,rest assured this end is at,ansd other diseased organs. No. no; ior by io
 ihe lungs ms, valuable tune is being losi. .and without es % he at the root of the evil and to strike effectively, 20 A once to the stomach, and there yon will find she cause. and THE ONLY cause of all this tptnbie, and only by removing this the patient hdvc any hope )0f reeavery. Tostalk about curing Consumption 6y
 applying remedies the lungs and taking thought or instung treatment for other diseased parts of the system, IS all nonsense, and the height of en- lpyricism. No patient ever cured nor ever will -seafch there for diseased action, tand you will al;
 ways find enough of IL, and treatment nAY he in s,ltued with ho little hope of shccess-and that
 will in great majority of cases, cure the patient,
 providing of course, the lungs arc not too much con isumed.
 There Ire thousands of clergvrien throughout the known as Clergyman's Sore Throat and probably rot one m hundfed knows the true cause uf his disease perhaps from the fact of n never having bsen properly explained to him bv his physician nd
 possibly also from his physician taking wrong vie as regards it's true cause. Out of hundreds ol cases that have fallen under my observation. there has been