Surgical observations on the constitutional origin and treatment of local diseases : and on aneurisms / by John Abernethy.

  • John Abernethy
Date:
1817
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Credit: Surgical observations on the constitutional origin and treatment of local diseases : and on aneurisms / by John Abernethy. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    state must be obviated in order to prevent the latter. Medicines which excite a healthy action of the bowels in one person, are either inert or too active in another. Doses, which would have no effect in a state of health, become purgative in this disorder; a eircumstance which shows that the bowels are irritable. There are some rare instances of the contrary, in which it is exceedingly difficult to excite the actions and secretions of these viscera. I have found in some cases, that purga- tive medicines and spices dissolved in spirit and water, have answered better than any thing else, in producing a sufficient, but not too copious discharge from the bowels. Equal] parts of compound tincture of rhubarb and senna is the formula to which I allude. - When irritation in the large intestines has been denoted by the mixture of mucus and jelly avith the feeces, and sudden and urgent calls to void them, I have advised oily and mucilaginous medicines as aperients: as castor oil, mixed with a large proportion of mucilage. My sole object, however, has WOL. I. G been