A popular treatise on health and the means of preserving it, or, The dyspeptic's pocket companion / by the late William Turnbull ; with extracts from other medical writers, and notes by the editor.

  • Turnbull, William, 1729?-1796.
Date:
1831
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    prevented from going to extremes. The same may be said of the menses in women; and to them the 6amo observation equally applies. Of Retention of Milk. The same delicate attention that is necessary to the former discharges, is equally essential here. This se- cretion, in a nursing female, is readily affected by the slightest causes, in respect to diet, situation, or passions of mind. The consequence of this is, that a foundation is not only laid for morbid affections in the organ; but the general health is apt to be deranged by the influence it possesses with the whole of the system. GENERAL REMARKS ON TEMPERAMENTS. [Some of the remarks-of Dr. Turnbull were omitted in the order in which they appeared, under an apprehension that the entire would carry this volume to a greater extent than was desirable for a popular Manual. But as the small type used in this edition em- braces more matter, in a given number of pages, than was calcu- lated upon, the passages rejected are inserted in this place. The table of contents, which will be prefixed to the volume, will prevent any particular inconvenience arising from the trans- position.] One of the causes of different temperaments may be referred to difference of irritability, the peculiar inherent property of the muscular fibre. Thus in the choleric, the muscular fibres are excited to action by the slightest stimulus, while in the phlegmatic, the muscles contract but slowly, and are only brought into exertion by the most powerful means.