gastrodynia

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

Whereas in this gastrodynia the pain is diffused over the whole stomach; and, like other diseases from torpor, the pulse is weaker, and the extremities colder, and the general debility greater, than in the passage of a gall-stone; for in the former the debility is the consequence of the pain, in the latter it is the cause of it.

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