Facts, tending to show the connection of the stomach with life, disease, and recovery / [By Charles Webster].

  • Charles Webster
Date:
1793
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Credit: Facts, tending to show the connection of the stomach with life, disease, and recovery / [By Charles Webster]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ *8 ] anting, often purges, and a draftic has been known to purge feverely, and to prove fatal, when, on diffedtion, the ftomach only was found to be inflamed. Hoffmann mentions a woman in a tertian, who, having taken eight grains of glafs of antimony, had violent vomiting and purging during three fuccefiive fits, but not in the inter¬ vals, that fhe died in the third fit, that, on diiTedtion, the ftomach and upper inteftines were found inflamed and covered with gan¬ grenous fpots, and that the antimony was retained in the villous coat of the ftomach. Moft cathartics, like other matters, are decompofed before they pafs the pylorus; thofe which pafs feemingly unchanged, as fulphur, oxyd of mercury, caffia, and rhu¬ barb, are in general gentle in their opera¬ tion. Scammony and gamboge are apt to diforder the ftomach peculiarly ; hellebore occafions great anxiety, with a fenfe of fuf- focation ; colocynth and refinous pur¬ gatives