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Excerpt from The Eclectic Medical Journal: January, 1853
No pain or tenderness can be perceived in the stomach on pressure, but the patient complains of persisting burning sensa tion in the epigastric region, the vomiting does not appear to be aggravated by anything taken into the stomach, either solid or fluid, and the most powerful cathartic fails to have any effect; in. Jections may almost be ranked the same as cathartics when ad ministered before the stomach is quieted. The patient is at all times tossing the arms about, and towards the fatal termination of the malady can hardly be kept in bed, he is nearly all the time in a partially comatose condition, but easily roused, and almost his only reply when asked a question in reference to his present condition is that he is so sick. He will also at times complain of wandering pains in the limbs. The quantity of matter ejected by vomiting is enormous, and in some cases the vomiting con tinnes until death closes the scene. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
