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The Stomach in its Morbid States ; being a Practical Inquiry !into 

 the Nature and Treatment of Diseases of that Organ, and into 

 the influence they exercise upon the origin, progress, and termi- 

 nation of Diseases of the Liver, Heart, Lungs, and Brain ; by 

 Langston Parker, Member of the Royal College of Surgeons, 

 and Fellow of the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society of 

 London ; 8vo, Barlow, Birmingham, and Longman, London, 

 1838, pp. xx, 304. 



Mr. Parker's is a comprehensive and elaborate medical treatise ; 

 and consequently, it embraces subjects far above the sphere of a journal 

 devoted to general science and literature. Since, however, his method 

 is so distinct and his style so perspicuous as to be intelligible for the 

 most part by unmedical readers, we may venture to place before the 

 Profession a mere view of his arrangement, and before the Public 

 such an illustration of his practical principles and their applications 

 as will render their propriety and usefulness apparent to ordinary 

 experience. 



By the author's intention, his work is materially different from all 

 those which have preceded it, on the same subject. It is neither 

 occupied chiefly with the consideration of pathological changes, nor is 

 it limited to one class of primary morbid states. To his mind, 

 organic disease itself has never appeared so essential as its precursory 

 conditions ; for these, by their long continuance, tend ultimately to 

 produce incurable affections, either in the organs where they are 

 seated, or in remote parts by sympathy ; and, on this account, he 

 wishes to represent these conditions as requiring the greatest atten- 

 tion. 



Mr. Parker refers the primary Morbid Conditions of the Stomach 

 to three distinct classes : first, its congestive and inflammatory states ; 

 second, the affections of its sensibility, both organic and animal ; and 

 third, the disorders of its secretions. He gives a valuable prelimi- 

 nary analytical table, for the purpose of affording a condensed outline 

 of his observations ; and, in the selection of its elements, he has 

 displayed much tact and judgment. Thus we conveniently find — that, 

 under thirteen separate heads, he treats of as many propositions with 

 remarkable clearness and force of demonstration. We would recom- 

 mend the doctors, both the idle and the studious, to peruse this table 

 as an exercise which may inspire them with a resolution to cultivate a 

 more intimate acquaintance with Mr. Parker's gastropathy and his 

 expedients for rescuing sufferers from the tortures of its inexorable 

 dominion. 



For the benefit of those persons in whom the stomach solicits 

 attention, through the instrumentality of occasional or periodical 

 excitement, we will now select some notes from Mr. Parker's very 

 instructive and judicious remarks on the principal remedies employed 

 in diseases of tlie digestive organs. 



General bleeding in affections of die Btomach, even of die inflam 



