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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![laxing and debilitating to the coats of the lower j bowel, and should on no account (as I have before stated) be considered as curative agents in chronic constipation, but should rather be regarded in the light of useful temporary expe- dients for securing an immediate evacuation under '] urgent circumstances and great irritation. As \ regards stimulating injections, such as turpentine \ or assafoetida, they may now and then be con- ' ditionally useful, but their bad secondary effect ] usually far more than counterbalances any first j advantage. j When tonic medicines are used, we should always avoid combination as much as possible. By •' prescribing very small and not too frequently re- j peated doses of one tonic at a time, Ave shall generally secure more success than by combination j ■ and further, we husband instead of rashly expend- 'i ing our reserves. A judicious alternation of such I tonics as may, from totality of conditions present j in each case, be most clearly indicated, w^ill be ; found, as a rule, the most effectual, and indisputably • the most philosophical: we can thus discriminate \ between and employ the specific services of each, 1 and we shall be less liable to fire off random shots, with but a vague idea of hitting the mark. The ' tonics which I would specially name as calculated ' to prove faithful allies are Nux Vomica, Quinse j Sulphas, Barytse Murias, Anthemis Nobilis, the ;](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b20396296_0176.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
