A collection of chronical diseases, viz. the colick: the bilious cholick: hysterick diseases: the gout: and the bloody urine from the stone in the kidnies ... / [John Pechey].

  • Pechey, John, 1655-1716
Date:
1692
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A collection of chronical diseases, viz. the colick: the bilious cholick: hysterick diseases: the gout: and the bloody urine from the stone in the kidnies ... / [John Pechey]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    “SSSR CES, CGS ioe 4A Treati fe a cold. irftemperies: of the Stomach or Guts, 1f'] | it be ftop’d by reafon the Excrements are: } grown hard, or becaufe fomething elfe ob-:] ftructs the Inteftines (a great quantity of .it remaining in the great. Guts, efpecially in the Colon) occafions; violent Pain, . Grofs cold and phlegmatick Humours dri- ven into the Tunicles of the Inteftines, may occafion fuch Pain, either ‘by gnawing, if they are Acrimonious or Briney , or by chilling the part which is confequently bound up thereby, and much difordered , (as Galen fays , when he was grievoully afflicted with the Colick, he evacuated a Glafly fort of Phlegm actually cold,) or by emitting Wind, which is eafily elevated by a fimall Heat. from the grofs vifcid and clammy Humour. Laftly, Cholerick and Acrid Humours , and alfo Melancholy and Acid by pricking and twiching the Inteftines, caufe fuch Pains. But: it may be ask’d how it comes to pafs, that in the action of thefe caufes, the Colick fhould } have its exacerbations and remiffions, the fame ' ‘tis prefent, fhould continually gnaw and diftend, Lo which I anfwer, that fometimes | occafions little or-no pain s but that at other asis ufual in an Epilepfie, Hyfterick Fits, and. | the acceflion of Fevers. 7 | Ca oe a (Chel Ce a (Og ee, ce Ci eee rte Ka SS cee