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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![necessary, in order to derive all the advantage that ] galvanism can confer, to have the interrupted \ currents from a magneto-electric machine properly | applied by some competent medical practitioner who ' has paid special attention to the subject. Consider- able skill is required in directing and altering the \ positive and negative currents, as they are passed to \ and from the spine and the abdominal regions, as I circumstances may dictate. The late improvements ' in the magneto-electric machines render them the \ most convenient and efficient for the pui'pose at ' present in view. Strong continmus currents gene- I rally do harm. ■ I would just name that, where a combination of ^ torpidity with peristaltic irregularity and flatulence ! obstinately persists after the proper regulation of the galvanic currents in the ordinary way, the chance of benefit should never be cast aside until a duly ^ insulated conductor (principally the negative pole) I has been applied within the sphincter ani, the point of application of the positive pole being of course j varied. Deficient secretion of moisture, and hardened scy- bala.—^When this condition is simply a conse- quence and accompaniment of any of the preceding causes which I have named, its treatment will depend upon the nature of the primary causation, and be j carried out on similar principles. But we have spe- !](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b20396296_0180.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
