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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![I in view, the usual well-considered management of I various diseased conditions, constitutional and ac- ' quired (examples of which have been given at a former page), will in different cases devolve upon the physician. Where the debility is unaccom- j panied by active and continuous ii-ritability with excitement and determination of blood to the head; but where the kritabihty, though easily excited and continually recurring, is of intermitting character and attended by lowered nutrition, much prostra- tion of the vital powers, and passive congestion; [ the treatment will be cautiously tonic and soothing. ■ On the other hand, when the constitution of the patient is naturally strong—nutrition active though i perverted—the blood-vessels of the system fully supplied—the cerebral irritability and congestion active rather than passive with constant or frequent vascular excitement—the debility partaking of de- pression or oppression, and temporary exhaustion, j rather than actual loss of vital power;—then our treatment will mainly be of an alterative and ] sedative nature. Whatever name be technically given to the primarily diseased condition, these principles of management will, I need scarcely add, | be applicable. An efficient purgative occasionally exhibited in strong and plethoric constitutions will be not only admissible but necessaiy; but the j continual repetition of such must be condemned. In most cases, be the natm-al constitution strong ]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b20396296_0208.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
