Excerpt from The Hahnemannian Monthly, Vol. 36: January to December, 1901 Pain and vomiting are symptoms of a higher grade. Pain in some degree attends most cases, but becomes the most im portant symptom in many of the more aggravated ones. There is indefinite distress during digestion in the simpler type, and a gnawing pain which becomes acute, and even gastralgic, in the graver form. It is so persistent and severe in some as to excite a fear of malignancy. Flatulence is always a symptom, and the over-irritable gastric muscle makes frequent attempts to expel it. This symptom is increased by giving way to the inclination. Vomiting is not unusual at the periods of greatest distress. I have been impressed, however, by its absence in many of the most severe cases which I have seen. In the case of a physician who was under my care for one year, much of the time confined to bed, serious ulceration of the stomach eventuating, there was an entire absence of vomiting. In three cases under my observation at this time, one of them of a severe character, there has been practically no vomiting. In one of these, a highly sensitive delicate woman, a little vomiting oc curs occasionally. Pyrosis or water-brash is an occasional symptom. During the past winter I have had the opportunity of studying this symptom carefully. At one time it was supposed to be the raising of gastric secretion, or at least that the fluid raised came from the stomach. Probably many still entertain this idea. I am quite certain this cannot always be the case, but that the fluid is usually altered saliva. I believe that in most cases it is a suddenly developed intense salivation. 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.