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 ON DISEASES OF THE STOMACH.

THE VARIETIES OF DYSPEPSIA: THEIR DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT.

ALTHOUGH nearly every year new works have appeared on diseases of the stomach, still the maladies affecting this organ are so numerous, and of a character so diversified, that there is ample scope for the records of individual experience. It is not my intention to enter into the scientific and pathological bearings of gastric disease; this I have already done to a great extent in my former work on 'Diseases of the Abdomen.' My object in the following pages rather to direct atten- tion to the practical consideration of the subject, and to those divisions of a common disease which are brought under the daily notice of the physician. The opinions advanced are based upon facts educed in the clinical study of disease; and, if it had been thought desirable numerous instances might have been appended in support of every statement: we have preferred simply