Practical observations on disorders of the stomach, with remarks on the use of the bile in promoting digestion / [George Rees].
- Rees, George, 1776?-1846.
- Date:
- 1811
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Practical observations on disorders of the stomach, with remarks on the use of the bile in promoting digestion / [George Rees]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Felt this medicine cornfortable 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. Ricinl Vi tell. Oni. q. s. Tinct. Aromat. 3]. Aq. Distill. 7j. M. ft. Haust, mane sumend. et p. r. n. repetend. This medicine, mild and gentle, as it appears, disagreed very much, produced great heat in the Stomach, and griping of the bowels, with much general irntation. I 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 tartrite 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- ,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31877138_0215.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
