Observations on the utility and administration of purgative medicines in several diseases / by 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 / by James Hamilton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    In the courfe of the following obfervations, when I call in queltion the opinions of refpec- table authors, I trull I mall fpeak with that deference and caution, which I feel to be due to them ; being well aware how apt we are to take erroneous views in difcuffions that are purely theoretical.—And when I propofe thofe changes in practice, which experience has taught me to be ufeful, I will do fo with a confidence proportionate to that experience upon which my opinions are founded. Neverthelefs, I beg it to be underftood, that I refpeclfully fubmit the changes which I fuggeft, to the considera- tion of my profeffional Brethren ; and requeft, that, after a full trial, they will give a candid decifion on their merits ; for the judgment of the public is the teft, by which, I am fenfible, they muft ultimately be confirmed or rejected. The importance of the functions of the Ito- mach and interlines is well known, and uni- verfally admitted. By means of thefe functions our food is digefted and affimulated, and is carried, under the form of a nutritious fluid, into the fyftem. Befides, the power of fympathy a 2 connects