Bridge of Allan and its resources / by Wm. Gordon.

  • Gordon, William (Consultant)
Date:
1860
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Credit: Bridge of Allan and its resources / by Wm. Gordon. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and some medical men too, an indispensable addition to the use of the water. They are not only, in most cases, unne¬ cessary, but their frequent employment is a great obstacle to its beneficial effects, inasmuch as it prevents the water from restoring the energy and action of the intestinal canal, which it was the likely means of disturbing; besides, such a mixture of medicinal agents, prevents the medical man from arriving at a proper standard of administration as re¬ gards quantity. It will be found useful (when necessary to produce evacuation) in easily irritated bowels, forbidding the use of an ordinary purgative, as it generally answers the required purpose, without causing the secondary in¬ convenience or disturbance we might have to fear, from the same remedy in its pharmaceutical preparation. Its influence does not wholly cease when the aperient action has been effected; some of the constituents are arrested by the organs of the body, therein exciting their beneficial agency in restoring those inorganic elements of the body, that are constantly wasted by the various ex¬ cretions, thereby conveying antiseptic properties to the fluids, and preventing a vitiated state of the system. Combined with its aperient are other actions, viz. diure¬ tic, alterative, and deobstruent, which distinguish it, in an eminent degree, as a remedy in all obstructed abdominal secretions, and for promoting a free circulation of the blood in the same region, thus removing stagnation in the portal system, and facilitating the reflux of venous blood towards the central organ of circulation, which responds with invi¬ gorated movement; hence, we often see organic reproduc¬ tions much improved under the influence of such a happy co-operation of action.