On indigestion and costiveness : with hints to both sexes on the important, safe, and efficacious means of relieving diseases of the digestive organs by lavements: including directions for the selection and use of apparatuses for their administration: and the best medicinal preparations for intestinal and other injections. To which is added, observations on the mode of preserving health and prolonging life, by air, exercise, sleep, clothing, etc. Including many useful family prescriptions. The whole illustrated by coloured engravings / By Edward Jukes, Surgeon, inventor of the stomach-pump.

  • Jukes, Edward.
Date:
1831
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Credit: On indigestion and costiveness : with hints to both sexes on the important, safe, and efficacious means of relieving diseases of the digestive organs by lavements: including directions for the selection and use of apparatuses for their administration: and the best medicinal preparations for intestinal and other injections. To which is added, observations on the mode of preserving health and prolonging life, by air, exercise, sleep, clothing, etc. Including many useful family prescriptions. The whole illustrated by coloured engravings / By Edward Jukes, Surgeon, inventor of the stomach-pump. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    furnished the profession, and the public in general, ■with an easily managed and not unpleasant means of accomplishing what had been so great a desideratum in medical and domestic practice, and led to the attainment of what was desired in respect of the me- thod of employing numerous remedies in the form of lavements, in the treatment of the very various affections to which the human frame is liable. This adaptation of his discovery to so useful a purpose, had been attempted by various mecha>* nists, and with some success. None of these, however, satisfied him; but, after much consideration and various modifica- tions, he adopted a new apparatus, con- structed on principles which will insure the convenient, the efficacious, and the most delicate employment of a plan of treatment, which has been approved by the most emi- nent medical practitioners of this country and on the Continent, as the most efficacious in removing, not only those affections which are noticed in this little work, but also B 2