A treatise on headachs, their various causes, prevention, and cure / [George Hume Weatherhead].

  • Weatherhead, G. Hume (George Hume), 1790?-1853
Date:
1841
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Credit: A treatise on headachs, their various causes, prevention, and cure / [George Hume Weatherhead]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    are properly chosen, their beneficial operation is not limited merely to that of evacuating the bowels. Aperients have a powerful effect in cor¬ recting the morbid state of the different secreting organs that pour their fluids into the intestinal canal; and it is by effecting this wholesome alteration, and by stimulating the bowels at the same time to regular action, that digestion be¬ comes natural, and hence nutritive. It is obvious, that if digestion be imperfectly performed, much of the food intended to nourish the body will be passed off as feculent. Gentle purgation, there¬ fore, by correcting the disordered state of the intestinal fluids, indirectly proves a tonic of the most efficacious kind. This beneficial change is observable in the disappearance of the thick and foul coating on the tongue—in the improvement of the appetite—in the more natural appearance of the evacuations; and, lastly, in the more ready obedience of the bowels to the influence of dimi¬ nished and diminishing doses of the aperient used. I have known horse-exercise to succeed in suc¬ couring and rendering efficient the above means, when all others had failed. Among other circumstances conducing to health is the proper regimen of the mind. The influence which the mind and body reciprocally exert on each other, forms that interesting depart-