Digestion : the passport to health / by Alfred Wright.

  • Wright, Alfred.
Date:
[1883?]
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Credit: Digestion : the passport to health / by Alfred Wright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    exhibition of any of them, because their actions are so widely dissimilar. y^For example, bismuth decreases the quantity of gastric juice, and quinine augments its flow. Hence these drugs acting in opposite ways are remarkable in their effects when apphed with care and judgment. ;< y/ But let me here remark, it is quite un- necessary to give any medicines in large quantities, for I find that the minute doses are equally efficacious in most cases. Homoeopathy may take credit for having enhghtened the public as to the old mis- chievous mode of over-drugging them which used to be practised. ^ It is far less requisite than is generally supposed to insist upon the patient sub- mitting himself to very troublesome dietary restrictionsVfor I find that, by making but very httle (^f any) alteration in the ordinary mode of living, digestion, after being firmly re-estabhshed, is capable of being kept in perfect order, by a little attention being given to the secretions when the first sign of any recurrence of the malady evinces itself. Though it may not be necessary for