Medical remarks on natural, spontaneous and artificial evacuation ... / [John Anderson].
- John Anderson
- Date:
- 1788
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Medical remarks on natural, spontaneous and artificial evacuation ... / [John Anderson]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![lure, as to be highly deobftrueiit; and, by accelerating the languid circulation, they are exceedingly efficacious in conquering the obftinate chronic difeafe ; efpecially if drank at the fpring before its volatility and native heat are extinguilhed, when the concrete matter will fubfide. Strong purging has been recommended, by fome eminent men, for dropfies ; but for what reafon is not fufficiently evident to me, as the cacochymic and leucophlegmatic habit is brought on by nothing fo foon as by it. It is true, that much water is there^ by carried off ; but the folids are left in a more debilitated flate, and, confequently, the water, by meeting with but fmall refif- tance, and fweat and urine being diminifhed, again accumulates faller. I have had many dropfical patients in all its ftages; but, though I will not pretend to fay I have been fo fortunate as to cure them all, nor the one ]ialf, yet experience authorifes me to affert, I have fucceeded with a confiderable num- ber by the lenient method—with none by the draflic^^. The lenient phyfic operating Hydrapicls alvum rngliri cibo melius efl quam me- cilicamcnto. Census. kindly,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28768401_0051.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
