An experimental enquiry into the effects of tonics, and other medicinal substances on the cohesion of the animal fibre / by Adair Crawford ; edited by Alexander Crawford.

  • Adair Crawford
Date:
1816
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Credit: An experimental enquiry into the effects of tonics, and other medicinal substances on the cohesion of the animal fibre / by Adair Crawford ; edited by Alexander Crawford. 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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    to mention the facts stated above, which show that the changes in the stomach and skin fre- quently alternate with each other, the nausea and vomiting, which usually take place upon the accession of the cold fit, render it extreme- ly probable that the tone of the stomach is reduced below the standard of health. These symptoms are alleviated as soon as the skin begins to be relaxed. Hence we may perceive the reason why sub- stances which relax the stomach, as volatile alkali, and aromatic oils, given during the cold fit, in Jarge doses, increase the violence of the paroxysm. But these substances, on the con- trary, which strengthen the stomach, and relax the skin, as emetic tartar, ipecacuanha, and opium, when exhibited at the accession of the paroxysm, generally diminish its violence, and sometimes entirely remove it. If the state of the skin and intestines at the beginning of the fit of an intermittent be such as we have now described, it will, in some measure, explain the mode of the operation of the Peruvian bark in this class of diseases; for that medicine possesses, in a very high de- gree, the power of producing changes in the
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