apepsia

Various labels appeared in the early literature, all hinting at different root causes: “apepsia hysterica,” “neuropathic disorders of gastric sensibility,” “nervous dyspepsia,” “hyperaesthesias of the stomach,” “gastrodynia,” and “visceral neurosis.”

Crazy Like Us Ethan Watters 2010

This apepsia or water-qualm continues many years, even to old age; Mr. G---- of Lichfield suffered under this disease from his infancy; and, as he grew old, found relief only from repeated doses of opium.

Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766

It is distinguished from apepsia and cardialgia by there being nothing ejected from the stomach by the retrograde motions of it, or of the oesophagus.

Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766

Which is distinguished from the former by the habits of the patient in respect to drinking; by the colour of the eruptions being less deep; and by the patient continuing generally to be troubled with some degree of apepsia.

Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766

In apepsia chronica the actions of the stomach are not so far impaired or destroyed as totally to prevent the excitation of the sensorial power of association, which therefore contributes something towards the actions of the heart and arteries, though less than natural, as a weak pulse always I believe attends this disease.

Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766

(bad digestion), afterward from apepsia (indigestion), and later lyentery (a lax or diarrhea in which food is discharged only half digested), and at the last the vicious circle is often completed by obesity, uric affections of the liver or bladder, and all the other diseases belonging to that class.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 664, September 22,1888 Various

It may be asked, Why is there a great and constant accumulation of the sensorial power of association, owing to the torpor of the stomach and heart and arteries, in continued fever with weak pulse; which is exerted on the cutaneous and pulmonary capillaries, so as to excite them into increased action for many weeks, and yet no such exuberance of sensorial power produces fever in winter-sleeping animals, or in chlorosis, or apepsia, or hysteria?

Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766

Thus it appears that four ounces of claret produced marked hypopepsia in a case of moderate hyperpepsia, whereas two ounces of brandy produced practically apepsia. "

Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say Martha Meir Allen 1890