An essay on the diseases of the bile, more particularly its calculous concretions, called gall-stones / [William White].

  • White, William, 1744-1790
Date:
1771
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Credit: An essay on the diseases of the bile, more particularly its calculous concretions, called gall-stones / [William White]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    afperated by riding, exercife, and violent motion of every kind. . The coftive habit of the patient, calls for the repeated ufe of medi¬ cines that ftimulate the bowels and open the body gently. The cure of this difeafe is general¬ ly attempted by alteratives, efpecially the decoftions of the opening roots, and of the faponaccous laftefcent plants. The Baron Van Svrieten great¬ ly recommends a decoction of the a- boye mentioned plants and grafs, in whey ; he gives a pint every day for three months together, with the ad¬ dition of a proper quantity of fal poly- chrejltmi. And fays, that by a long perfeverance in that courfe, he has known feme obflinater cafes cured. Soap is univerfally ufed in all icTe- ric diforders, and is certainly well calculated by its detergent qviality, to diffolve many kinds of obftruefions arifing from a too vifeid date of the humours. But experiments iliew that it has no power of adlion upon biliary calculi. It may however be of ufc' by way of prevention. The juice of the triticum repens, or dogs-grafs, has been greatly ex¬ tolled