Excerpt from Indigestion an Introduction to the Study of the Diseases of the Stomach The present edition has been considerably enlarged, and to a great extent rearranged, with the result, I venture to hope, of enhancing its utility. In its present form it does not profess to be a complete treatise upon all the disorders of the digestive apparatus, nor to exhaust the subject of diseases of the stomach. Its aim is simply to present to the student, in as concise a form as may be, the minimum amount of knowledge of modern methods, with which he can hope to study at all scientifically the chronic disorders of digestion which may come under his observation. By avoiding as much as possible controversial points, and confining myself to facts now generally admitted as matters of common knowledge, I have been enabled to eliminate references from the text. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.