Essays on fashionable diseases. The dangerous effects of hot and crouded rooms. The clothing of invalids. Lady and gentlemen doctors. And on quacks and quackery ... With a dedication to Philip Thicknesse ... To which is added a dramatic dialogue ... / By Benjamin Goosequill and Peter Paragraph [pseuds. of James Makittrick Adair].

  • Adair, James Makittrick, 1728-1802.
Date:
[1790?]
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Credit: Essays on fashionable diseases. The dangerous effects of hot and crouded rooms. The clothing of invalids. Lady and gentlemen doctors. And on quacks and quackery ... With a dedication to Philip Thicknesse ... To which is added a dramatic dialogue ... / By Benjamin Goosequill and Peter Paragraph [pseuds. of James Makittrick Adair]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    But there are many difeafes accompanied with a fallownefs of complexion, often mis- taken for a jaundiced tinge; and this is fometimes the cafe in perfons who labour under a complication of nervous and hypo- chondriacal Symptoms, not unfrequent [y connected with ill-formed gout : Such per- fons, under the idea of being bilious, are of- ten too bufy with purgatives, for the abfurd purpofe of carrying off a caufe which does not exifl: i and thereby exaSperate all their complaints. Gall-Jioncs, as they are commonly called, are formed by the bile contained in the gall- bladder becoming gradually So hardened as to acquire the confiftence of yellow wax. This is not fo frequent a difeafe as is gene- rally imagined; but it is eafily distinguished from what are commonly, but falfely, called bilious cafes, from the exquifite and intole- rable pains at the pit of the Stomach ; whiKt the gall-ttones block up the paffage from the gall-bladder. But this terrible evil is not always accompanied with a bilious tinge of the Skin, which is indeed often accidental, and unconnected with any fault of the bile. Even