Medical hints for the hills / by S.O. Bishop.

  • Bishop, S. O.
Date:
1888
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    tiili’Diaf rhcBd. 2? Under reasonable control by such suitable Treatment, medicines as the medical attendant may deem fit to prescribe. Salicylic acid in small doses is useful; this acts as an antisep- tic and counteracts the tendency to flatu- lency caused by the absence of bile which itself prevents intestinal putrefaction of the food. The partially digested contents of the stomach, passing into the small bowel are deprived of their usual quantity of bile • thus are not acted oU, and rendered aseptic, so set up decomposition, which causes irrita- Treatment, tion, subsequent diarrhoea, distention and flatulency. Some advocate a broad strip of flannel to be worn round the stomach, com- ing well across the liver. Excellent as this may be, it has the disadvantage of the patient being liable to chills, as soon as it is left off, so on the whole, I would not re- commend it. A favourite treatment now in vogue by several of the leading physicians in India is the solution of the bi-chloride Treatment,
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