Volume 2

Observations on the change of public opinion, in religion, politics, and medicine; on the conduct of the war, etc / [John Millar].

  • Millar, John
Date:
[1805?]
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Credit: Observations on the change of public opinion, in religion, politics, and medicine; on the conduct of the war, etc / [John Millar]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    which an inexperienced practitioner may more eafily be deceived with refpeCt to the expediency of ufing it. In the beginning the pulfe, though hard, is neither full nor frequent; and therefore no danger of inflammation is apprehended, but the pain is attributed to flatulence, or indigeftion, while hot, fpicy medicines, fpirits, or opium, are prefcribed, by which the inflammation is increafed, and the difeafe aggravated. The diagnoftic figns which lead to the knowledge of it are, a hard-contraCted pulfe, flcknefs, naufea and vomiting, and a fixed increafing pain in the bowels. Flatulent pains are diftinguifhed from it, by moving from one part of the inteflinal tube to another, by the abfence of naufea and vomiting, and the foftnefs of the pulfe. But when any doubt arifes, it may often be folved by attending to the conflitution of the patient, and by making a careful inquiry concerning his habit, and the difeafes to which he hath been conftitutionally fubjcdted. Though an inflammation of the inteflines is always a dangerous difeafe, yet when proper remedies are early applied, it is often happily removed. It is lefs danger- ous to young perfons than to thofe of a more advanced age. When the pain abates; when the naufea and G vomiting
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