No. XFIIL 



A DISSERTATION 



On Chronic Debilitif of the St077iach, 

 BY BENJAMIN WOLSEY DWIGHT. 



THE following observations were read before the Academy, as far 

 as the close of the remarks on Acidity of the Stomach, at their meet- 

 ing, June 26, 1810; and the remainder at their next meeting, on the 

 23d of the succeeding month. 



The author, having been engaged but a little period, in medical 

 pursuits, is not extensively acquainted with what may have been writ- 

 ten by others, on the same subject. He has no where seen it dis- 

 cussed in a manner, which appeared to him satisfactory. As he has 

 suffered severely from the disease, during the last eleven years of his 

 life, he was induced for his own satisfaction, and from a wish to ben- 

 efit others, to commit to writing, the result of his experience and ob- 

 servation. As many of those, who may read this work, may be pre- 

 sumed to be to a great extent unacquainted with subjectsof this na- 

 ture, it was praper, in his opinion, to make several expIanations,which 

 would have been unnecessary, had they been addressed to a Medical 

 Society. Some things also, have been cursorily noticed, or wholly 

 omitted, which v/ould have appeared, had they been intended for a 

 work professedly medical. He has been led to be more minute in 

 many parts of the discussion, also, from the fact, that the disease is 

 becoming yearly more frequent. Among our ancestors it was but 

 little known. They all, except a very small number in a few towns, 



