Cause Or Effect

Cause Or Effect

This ailment is not really a disease, only a local manifestation of some nerve derangement. It differs from all other diseases of the stomach in this: it has no anatomical change and is not directly due to any alteration in size or structure of the stomach, but to some shock, strain, nervous exhaustion, or nerve irritation in organs other than the stomach. Some eminent physicians are disposed to charge all but contagious or infectious diseases to some functional disturbance of the nervous system, but it seems that in most cases the theory of nervous origin is, '"Putting ...