Constipated bowels : the various causes and rational means of curen / by S.B. Birch.
- Birch, S. B. (Scholes Butler)
- Date:
- 1863
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Constipated bowels : the various causes and rational means of curen / by S.B. Birch. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![this pressure itself beneficial for unloading the lower bowel, but it tends to excite peristaltic action. When it is hard to re-establish rule for the purpose in question, a slight modification of | certain before-named efficacious yet simple expe- ] dients may, in some instances, be tried, viz., a large \ tumbler (or even two) of cold water taken fully two hours after lunch or early dinner, and followed by a quarter or half an home's s/iarp exercise—walking, ! jumping, or riding, or exercises in a gymnasium, if the preferential out-door exercise be inconvenient j in town. Delicate and thin persons may take j a glass of stout at a draught-xmdiQY the same cir- cumstances, and with the same view. In all instances of this neglect of the bowels, | much of our success in treatment must naturally i depend upon our rational influence over, and the active co-operation of, each invalid. i We have seen the contrast of the preceding in nervousness and excessive anxiety regarding regu- larity and frequency of the alvine evacuations. Such cases as these are often truly distressing, and their treatment involves (especially when compli- ; cated with functional derangement of hver and i indigestion) much more difficulty, anxious care, | and exercise of skill on the part of the practitioner, | than constipation from any other cause. It is not j one or two things, or even a combination of things, > which will cure constipation thus arising: it is the i](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b20396296_0166.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
