A view of the nervous temperament : being a practical enquiry into the increasing prevalence, prevention, and treatment of those diseases commonly called nervous, bilious, stomach and liver complaints; indigestion; low spirits; gout, &c. / by Thomas Trotter.

  • Trotter, Thomas, 1760-1832.
Date:
1807
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Credit: A view of the nervous temperament : being a practical enquiry into the increasing prevalence, prevention, and treatment of those diseases commonly called nervous, bilious, stomach and liver complaints; indigestion; low spirits; gout, &c. / by Thomas Trotter. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    318- I'oxyfrns, are convulfions that ibiiietlmes give alarm of their approach; but at other times their attack is inftant. We certainly poflefs no medicine that either prevents or fhortens thefe convulfions. I have feen epilepfy checked by the ligature round the thigh, when the fenfe of the aura^ as it is called, was afcend* ing the thigh : but in other cafes the ligature did not check the aura^ or prevent the fit^ The only treatment which I can recommend here is the whole rules of prevention j which improve the health, by abridging the predifpo-* fition. If as I contend, epilepfy is the ofF- fpring of the nervous temperament, the force of that muft be lefTened j and all cures of this coiivulfion by any particular article, can havd no real exiftence. Acidity and flatulence being two of the moft painful fymptoms attending thefe difeafeSj the common correctors are well known; they ought to be obviated as much as poffible by diet, which has been fufficiently explained^ The aeratedfoda water has now become a fa- fhionable morning draught for the cure of acidity, after a debauch of wine. It is really to be met with In coffee-houfes, as if it had never been manufactured by the apothecary^ and it