Some observations on the duodenum, or second stomach ... / extracted from the Gulstonian Lectures ... May 1817.

  • Grant David Yeats
Date:
1820
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Credit: Some observations on the duodenum, or second stomach ... / extracted from the Gulstonian Lectures ... May 1817. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    that the quassia had agreed with my amendment. The infusion should not be prepared stronger than here di¬ rected, which is half the strength of that of the Pharmacopoeia, for I have found that strong bitters are not salu¬ tary in their operation on the digestive organs, particularly that part of them I am now considering. When this morbid condition of the duodenum is attended with some fe¬ verish heats and urine somewhat high coloured and rather scanty, instead of senna, I add some neutral salts to the bitter, and if I am not deceived in my observation, I can scarcely speak too highly of the sulphat of potash as the best. It appears to me to have a more specific effect upon the duodenum, than the sulphat of magnesia. I give3j. of it twice a day in the quassia infusion, and gr. iij. pil. hydrarg. with or with¬ out two grains of extract, aloes ac¬ cording to the state of the bowels. If much feverish irritation prevails ari¬ sing,
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