Observations on the utility and administration of purgative medicines in several diseases / [James Hamilton].

  • Hamilton, James, 1749-1835.
Date:
1805
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Credit: Observations on the utility and administration of purgative medicines in several diseases / [James Hamilton]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    connects the ftomach and bowels with many other parts of the complicated animal machine; and {trengthens the. influence which thefe:organs maintain over the comfort, the health, and the ‘life of every individual. Hence it is obyious, that diforders of the ftomach and bowels mutt : greatly affect the fy{tem at large; and that, in proportion to the degree and duration of thefe diforders, the affection of the general habit will be more or lefs ferious and afflidting. | There. is certainly nothing new inthe obfer- vation, that the conftipated and loaded ftate of the inteftinal canal, is a common caufe of gene- ral bad health. But when-I go the length of faying, that this {tate generally accompanies . and aggravates the other fymptoms of fever ; that it 1s alfo. the immediate caufe of certain, diforders peculiar to children and young peo- ple; I am aware that I advance opinions, in - which there is a confiderable degree of novelty; » but in which I truft the following fheets will fatisty the medical.reader, that there is alfo at deaft, an equal degree of foundnefs, I have