An essay on indigestion and its consequences, or advice to persons affected with debility of the digestive organs ... dropsy, etc. ... illustrated with cases, to prove the effects of a new medicine ... Also, remarks on sea or cold bathing / [R. Squirrell].

  • Squirrell, R. (Robert)
Date:
1795
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Credit: An essay on indigestion and its consequences, or advice to persons affected with debility of the digestive organs ... dropsy, etc. ... illustrated with cases, to prove the effects of a new medicine ... Also, remarks on sea or cold bathing / [R. Squirrell]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    1 ( 12 ) Fir ft. They evacuate through the bowels whatever may be retained and is likely to prove injurious to the alimentary canal, or deftruSive to the general habit, without occafioning the leaft ftcknefs of the ftomach or griping of the bowels—hence they become highly ufeful whenever obftruftion of thofe organs have taken place. Secondly, They ftrengthen the fto¬ mach and bowels, and confequently the whole fyftem—Hence they are fervice- able in debilities of every kind,or thofe diforders where debility has been the efficient caufe. Thirdly, They empower the animal machine to promote every fecretion