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
Licence: Public Domain Mark
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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![Pray, Sir, excuse such a scrawl; I have been making my preparations for leaving to-morrow for Alencon, and feel myself so fatigued that I am unable to write more. [Nota. The documents alluded to in this letter are the Attestation No. 23, and the Certificate No. 24 which follow.] {See the preceding Attestation of Mr .Foucault-Denos, JVb. 21.) No. 23. GASTRITIS.—HABITUAL CONSTIPATION. Difficult digestion.—Frequent abstinence from food necessary.—Extreme debility. Mr. Wart ox, Rue Richelieu, No. 68, Paris. Since I have made Ervalenta part of my food, my health has greatly improved. For about two-and-twenty years I had been suffering more or less, almost continually from a disorder of the stomach. For several years I had been reduced to make use only of a very small number of ar¬ ticles of food ; a vreek rarely passed without my being forced to remain 24 hours, and sometimes longer, without taking any thing but a few tumblers of sugar and water; constipa¬ tion was continual; so much so, that, for the last 5 months, I was unable to procure an evacuation without the use of injections ; I was extremely debilitated. Now, I eat meat and vegetables; I make three meals a day, two of them on Ervalenta; I have natural evacuations with sufficient regularity ; I have been enabled to suppress entirely the use of injections, and lastly my strength has in a great degree returned. For nearly three months that I have made use of Er¬ valenta, I have experienced only two or three bad digestions. I find that aliment very agreeable, and were I even in the en-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29348043_0098.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
