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An essay of health and long life / By George Cheyne.

  • George Cheyne
Date:
1734
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Credit: An essay of health and long life / By George Cheyne. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and thereby allowing Nature (the only true Phyiician) to go undifturbed about its own Work. The Way it flops Purging, and cures a Diarrhoea3 I take to be, by carrying off the fharp and watry Humours in the Bowels by Perfpiration, which Opium exceedingly promotes ; by quieting thofe Spafms and Convulflons, and allaying thofe Stimu¬ lations excited by Purging ; and fettling and calming the Violence of the Peri- jlaltick Motion of the Guts, which hurries off their Contents. I will not take upon me here, to determine the proper Cafes for Opiates, or their Dofes : That is the Bulinefs of the Phyiician : But, in general, I may fay, Where-ever Pain is acute, intolerable, and pajl endu¬ ring, where it may endanger Convulflons, a Fever, or Inflammation ; after pre- miling the proper univerfal Evacuations, (fuch as Bleeding, Bliftering, Cupping, Purging, or Glyftering, as the Cafe re¬ quires, or will bear) Opiates then will molt certainly relieve, and may be fafely adminiftred. If the Cafe is at¬ tended with Vomiting, folid Opium will do bed;; becaufe it will be in a fmaller Volume, and will not be fo readily re¬ jected. If fpeedy Relief be required F f where
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