Obstinate, inveterate, and habitual constipation, - costiveness - not only totally overcome, but also completely destroyed - without using either purgatives, injections or baths - by a natural, simple, agreeable, and infallible means, recently discovered in France.

  • Warton, Mr.
Date:
1846
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Credit: Obstinate, inveterate, and habitual constipation, - costiveness - not only totally overcome, but also completely destroyed - without using either purgatives, injections or baths - by a natural, simple, agreeable, and infallible means, recently discovered in France. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    of preventing that delay, or of combating its effects when it has taken place. ”(1) Observation.—The acrid, corrupt, and delete¬ rious properties which the excrementitious matter acquires, when not expelled from the body once in twenty-four hours, are indicated by its insup¬ portable putridity. “ It is easy to understand how important it is that the bowels be never disturbed in the exercise of their functions, by delay in the passing of alimentary residue and of intesti¬ nal excretion, which, as they are useless for the purpose of nutrition, are become positive foreign bodies. The uneasi¬ ness which the accumulation of such matter produces in the stomach and bowels—an uneasiness that extends from one to the other—suspends or diminishes the action of those or¬ gans. The digestive organs, that is, the stomach and the in¬ testines, fail thus into a state of inertia ; but it is not only the abdomen (stomach, intestines, etc.) which then presents dis¬ turbed functions ; the delay which the circulation and the se¬ cretions of this part of the body undergo, renders the same functions too active in the chest and in the head. The diges¬ tive organs react, also, sympathetically upon the lungs and upon the brain; thus may we account for the oppression and distracting headache which so often accompany obstinate constipation. (2) u The minute researches, made by Dr. Broussais on the causes of inflammation of the digestive canal, have undoubt¬ edly produced useful results, by exciting physicians to study a species of affection which it is indispensable should occupy an important place in our nosological systems ; but over- zealous disciples have extended too far the consequences of (I) Preface a la traduction de Hamilton sur les Pargatifs, par Lafisae. (*2) The same preface-.
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