Works : With some account of his life / By John Coakley Lettsom.
- John Fothergill
- Date:
- 1784
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Works : With some account of his life / By John Coakley Lettsom. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.
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![[ <*» ] OBSERVATIONS ON THE Cure of FLUXES, by fmall Dofes of Ipecacuanha, Read, Auguft 21, 1780*. To the Medical Society in London, IF the following remarks on the ufe of ipecacuanha, in the cure of diar* rhceas, appear to you not improper to make a part of your next volume, they are wholly at your difpofal. It may feem to be an unneceflary bufinefs to fay more on this fubject, than has already been offered by others ; but as I think I have obferved this medicine, as well as rhubarb, to be ufed in thefe cafes fometimes improperly, I thought it might be doing fome fervice to the young practitioner, to point out the means by which he might belt avail liimfelf of thefe ufeful auxiliaries. I am. With much deference and refpeCt, Your friend and colleague. Lea Hall, 1780. J. Fothergill, I T is not intended to defcribe the different kinds of fluxes that occur in practice, in which the ipecacuanha may be ufed with advantage. An habitual diarrhoea, depending on fome irritating acrimony of the juices, accompanied with great weaknefs and irritability of the bowels (whatever may have given rife to r Medical Obfervations and Inquiries, vol. vi. p. 186. 4 I 2](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21517460_0737.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
