Practical observations on chronic affections of the digestive organs, and on bilious and nervous disorders : being an attempt to combine with English practice some useful methods of cure employed on the continent : also remarks on warm mineral baths, mineral waters in general, and on the use and abuse of the Cheltenham waters.

  • Thomas, John.
Date:
1821
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Credit: Practical observations on chronic affections of the digestive organs, and on bilious and nervous disorders : being an attempt to combine with English practice some useful methods of cure employed on the continent : also remarks on warm mineral baths, mineral waters in general, and on the use and abuse of the Cheltenham waters. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PIlACrj,CjA*Ii ORSEUVATIOKS veqous, system, and also the necessity of emptying the larg^ intestines, by means, of such remedies as are capable ofi stimulating, their whole circumference to. act upon and. expel their contents, without irritating their, tissuesmor those.of-the.other, chylopoietim. organs. I'have also,adverted to the pecu^ bar utility, of clysmas.in. cases of, neglected, accumulation. of foeces.in the lower bowels.; and have dwelt, I fear some may .say, withi prolixity on the. nature and functions, of, the skin, of its,intimate relation. with .the internal membranes, or its peculiar, agency, m determining the action of the sanguineous^ lymphatic, absorbent, and nervous systems, and consequently ..on its influence, in re^ storing that harmony in the animal economy, which ,may have..been broken by„ an lirrer.. gular distribution of the nervous energy, on an unequal determination., in . the .circula-. tion of the blood. I have , also brought forward many facts to prove the efficacy of warm baths. in restoring the functions of