A descriptive, diagnostic and practical essay on disorders of the digestive organs and general health, and particularly on their numerous forms and complications, contrasted with some acute and insidious diseases : being an attempt to prosecute the views of Dr. Hamilton and Mr. Abernethy, and a second edition of the essay On the mimoses, with additions / by Marshall Hall.

  • Hall, Marshall, 1790-1857.
Date:
1820
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Credit: A descriptive, diagnostic and practical essay on disorders of the digestive organs and general health, and particularly on their numerous forms and complications, contrasted with some acute and insidious diseases : being an attempt to prosecute the views of Dr. Hamilton and Mr. Abernethy, and a second edition of the essay On the mimoses, with additions / by Marshall Hall. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    SECTION III. THE TREATMENT. 358. THE principal causes of the Mimosis Urgens have been enumerated, § 308. This affection has sometimes originated also from causes of weakness, as too long lactation;—and from fatigue, anxiety and watching. I have seen this affection in the most de- cided form, in the Male Sex. 359. The Treatment embraces two objects; 1. the means of affording immediate relief in the paroxysm, and 2. the mode of prevention. 360. The attack of the Mimosis Urgens is reliev- ed by aether, the sp. ammonise arom., opium, &c.; by stimulating liniments containing the same substances; by fomentation with hot water; and, if necessary, by blood-letting. 361. The prophylaxis consists in avoiding the causes, in removing the original disorder, § 308, if the Mimosis Urgens depend on this cause; but espe- cially in the due administration of Purgative Medi- cines, Diet, Air, and Exercise, the principles of which have been already detailed, §§ 160, 198, 298, et seqq. FINIS.