Volume 1

A practical treatise on various diseases of the abdominal viscera ... / [Christopher Robert Pemberton].

  • Pemberton, Christopher Robert, 1765-1822.
Date:
1807
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A practical treatise on various diseases of the abdominal viscera ... / [Christopher Robert Pemberton]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ 8] and after its operation the following draught may be recommended ; K O!}. Amygdal. Mucil. Gum. arab. aa 31). Aq. Rose 3x. Tinct. Opii gtt. ij. Misce, ft. haustus, tertia quaque hora sumendus. Or, if the oil is offensive to the stomach, the following draught may be substituted ; K Magnes: vitriol: 3j, Infus. Rosz Bx. Syrup. Mori 3ss. Misce, fiat haustus, tertia quaque hora sumendus. Fomentations may be also applied to the abdomen, and the strictest antiphlogistic diet should be enforced. This is a disease full of danger. Women are more subject to it than men. I have known it take place in a child of four years old, and in adults ofall ages. It may be right to mention an irregu- larity in the complaint, which, if unnoticed, might deter a practitioner from having re- course to those vigorous measures so es- sential to counteract the magnitude of the danger. There is now and then, at the very