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First lines of the practice of physic / [William Cullen].

  • William Cullen
Date:
1812
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Credit: First lines of the practice of physic / [William Cullen]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    OF PHYSIC. ae 49] an exercise which pushes the blood into the de- pending vessels, while at the same time, the ef- fects of these circumstances are much favoured by the abundance and laxity of the cellular texture about the rectum. 945. It is thus that the hemorrhoidal flux is so often artificially rendered an habitual and syste- matic affection ; and Iam persuaded, that it is this which has given occasion to the Stahlians to con- sider the disease as almost universally such. 946. It is to ~ peeacilanly observed here, that when the hemorrhoidal disease has either. been originally, or has become, in the manner just now explained, a systematic affection, it then acquires a particular connection with the stomach, so that certain affections there excite the hemorrhoidal disease, and certain states of the hemorrhoidal af. fection excite disorders of the stomach. It is perhaps owing to this connection, that the gout sometimes affects the rectum. See 525, SECT. II. ' Of the cure of Hamorrhoidal affections. 947. Almost at all times it has been an opinion amongst physicians, and from them spread amongst the people, that the hemorrhoidal flux is a salutary \
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