. On disorders of digestion, their consequences and treatment . as had wonderful success with cases ofhysterical women; but I have been most struck with the successof the treatment in the case of a man in whom all medical treat-ment had proved useless. This patient, whom I first saw abouttwo years and a half ago, in consultation with Dr. Image, of BurySt. Edmunds, was a very tall, powerfully-built man, who had beenaccustomed to outdoor life, and much active exercise. He had atone time suffered from asthma, but this had left him, and he 1 Bendelack Hevvetson.—The Kelation between Sick Headaches
. On disorders of digestion, their consequences and treatment . as had wonderful success with cases ofhysterical women; but I have been most struck with the successof the treatment in the case of a man in whom all medical treat-ment had proved useless. This patient, whom I first saw abouttwo years and a half ago, in consultation with Dr. Image, of BurySt. Edmunds, was a very tall, powerfully-built man, who had beenaccustomed to outdoor life, and much active exercise. He had atone time suffered from asthma, but this had left him, and he 1 Bendelack Hevvetson.—The Kelation between Sick Headaches and DefectiveSight.—Famplild, Leeds, 1885. LETTSOMIAN LECTURES. [lect. became liable to attacks of pain and vomiting. I was inclined tolook upon the case as one of neurotic dysj)epsia, but other phy-sicians, Avlio had been consulted, both in this countiy and on thecontinent, regarded it as tubercular peritonitis. For two years hecontinued to become more and more emaciated, until at length hewas reduced to the appearance of a living skeleton. Only once in.
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