Volume 2

A guide to health : being cautions and directions in the treatment of diseases. Designed chiefly for the use of students / by Joseph Townsend ...

Date:
1795-1796
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A guide to health : being cautions and directions in the treatment of diseases. Designed chiefly for the use of students / by Joseph Townsend ... Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    5. Meconialisy in new born infants, from the re- tention of the meconium. < * \ ■ 6. Callojay -with fenfation of ftriflure in fome part of the inteftines, and flatulence with paint coftive- nefs and difcharge of liquid flools in finall quan- tities. \ 7. Calculojai with fixed hardnefs in fome part of the abdomen, and calculi difcharged by ftool. SECTION II. I OF THE PROXIMATE CAUSE IN COLIC, AND INDl^ CATIONS OF CURE. The proximate caufe is fpafmodic ftridure in fome part of the alimentary canal, chiefly in the colon, embracing a quantity of hardened feces, which are the irritating caufe. The indications of cure muft therefore be, 1. evacuate the hardened fteces. 2. *To relieve the JpaJm. The former will be effeftually anfwered by giving calomel, to be aflifted in its operation by decodtion of lenna, and the latter by opium.