Practical remarks on the discrimination and successful treatment of spasmodic stricture in the colon, considered as an occasional cause of habitual confinement of the bowels / By John Howship.

  • John Howship
Date:
1830
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Credit: Practical remarks on the discrimination and successful treatment of spasmodic stricture in the colon, considered as an occasional cause of habitual confinement of the bowels / By John Howship. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    seen and urged the necessity for perse- vering in giving nourishment, although to no purpose; have thought it probable that some chronic inflammatory action was go- ing on; or, in more general terms still, have felt confident' there was something wrong; and have concluded by admitting that the patient was in a very serious and precarious state : a sort of opinion plainly enough calculated to confirm apprehen^ sion and alarm, but not very capable of lessening the previous difficulties, by throwing any additional light upon the necessary treatment. From all that I have been able to see or learn, either from my own experience, or that of others, I am entirely convinced, that when the intestinal canal is suffering under the effects of irritation, the large intestine, and especially the colon, is most commonly its particular seat. One case more powerfully than any other fixed my attention upon the conside-
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