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
Licence: Public Domain Mark
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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![172] Felt this medicine comfortable to the Stomach', and was decidedly better after continuing it a week ; but the bowels are rather costive : omit- ted the use of the mixture therefore, and ordered in its stead the following-: R Ol. Ricini Vitcll. Oni. s. Tinct. Aroraat. 3j. Aq. Distill. M, ft.‘ Haust. mane sumend. et p. r. n. repetcnd. This medicine, ipild and gentle as it appears, disagreed very much, produced great heat in the Stomach, and griping of the bowels, with much general irritation. 1 should be disposed to suspect the purity of the oil, had I not since met with several instances where similar effects have arisen, and ascertained beyond all doubt, that many Stomachs have an invincible antipa- thy to oily medicines, however pure and free from rancidity. The bowels having been evacuated, I return* ^ ed to the use of the former medicine, adding to each dose a quarter of a grain of the tar trite of antimony, and applied a large burgundy pitch plaster to the Stomach, occasionally administer- ing small doses of the sulphate of magnesia in infusion of roses, to keep the bowels open: by these means, in the space of five weeks, this pa- tient was completely cured of a most distress- - - ing](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21304336_0184.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
