Practical observations on disorders of the stomach : with remarks on the use of the bile in promoting digestion / by George Rees.

  • Rees, George, 1776-1846.
Date:
1810
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Credit: Practical observations on disorders of the stomach : with remarks on the use of the bile in promoting digestion / by George Rees. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    Not much better, pain still continues unre- mittedly, nights restless, strength diminishes. ft Ol. Riclni. Tinct. Senn* aa jj. Vitell. Ovi pauxill. Aq. Meuth. M. ft. haust. bisdicBuracnd. Sickness and nausea, two stools, a little wind per anum. R Pulv. Myrrh 3], Ferr. Vitriol gr. iv, Kali3j. Tinct. Aromat. Aq. Meuth. M. capt. Coch. iij. bis die. This in two days gave some relief, the belly was less tense, and the tumour subsided, though without any expulsion of wind; used in addition to the above, ginger tea, by way of clyster, and continued to mend rapidly. The patient not having come again, I cannot detail further the progress of the cure. 9 This abrupt termination is a circumstance which a practitioner has often occasion to lament, and tends in no small degree to damp the ardour of his enquiries. After watching with zealous assiduity the progress of a peculiar case, to be deprived of the opportunity of witnessing the complete effect of his labours by the changeable caprice of his patient, is not, to say the least of it, such a return as he merits, who makes his pajtient’s welfare the object of his most serious solicitude.