Practical observations on the medical powers of mineral waters, and of the various modes of bathing : particularly in scrofula, consumption, cutaneous affections, gout, rheumatism, palsy, disorders of the kidnies, indigestion, female diseases, general debility, nervous and liver complaints, &c. &c. : with remarks on exercise and diet, intended for the use of invalids / by Patrick Mackenzie.

  • MacKenzie, Patrick.
Date:
1820
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Credit: Practical observations on the medical powers of mineral waters, and of the various modes of bathing : particularly in scrofula, consumption, cutaneous affections, gout, rheumatism, palsy, disorders of the kidnies, indigestion, female diseases, general debility, nervous and liver complaints, &c. &c. : with remarks on exercise and diet, intended for the use of invalids / by Patrick Mackenzie. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    is common]j the case in fevers. On this account I am in the habit of prescribing through their whole progress, purgatives, so as to produce daily, complete and regu- lar evacuations. In the remittent and in- termittent fevers of India, in scarlet fever, and in some of the worst cases of typhus, which have been under my care in the Fever Hospital, I have seen decided ad- vantage from this practice. It applies equally to a great variety of chronic diseases, which will be found to depend on, or to be intimately connected with, this torpor. Hence the general uti- lity of the saline and sulphureous mineral waters, which may be employed for days, and weeks, under circumstances of appa- rent great debility, All cathartics have not an equally ex- tensive range of action. Some, like jalap, stimulate the whole length of the intestinal