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

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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$\ • \ . » 133 have just described, as labouring under an oj)~ ])ression of the chest from an accumulation of phlegm, is cold, pale, and languid; the exhibi- tion of small doses of antimony, frequently ad- ministered, fails very often to produce vomiting, and is attended with fatal effects: but when the pulse is strong and hard, with great heat upon the skin, then antimony produces the most sa- lutary effects, and should be given in a full dose. To children of three years of age, I have often administered three grains of tartar emetic with- out finding its operation too severe. It is a cu- rious circumstance which 1 can vouch for from my own experience likewise, that its effect is’ frequently less severe than a smaller dose; for when, given in the quantity now mentioned, vomiting takes place speedily, perhaps in less than half an hour, and the sooner it begins the slighter it is. When half that quantity has been given, it remained in the Stomach for some hours, and then began its action, which has continued with violent strainings fora considerable time; but though I have often employed this medicine in the dose I mention to children of this a2;e, it • , ® must not be supposed that the dose should be increased to persons of more advanced years in a ratio at all proportioned to their age; on the contrary, many adults could not bear the sanie$