Medical remarks on natural, spontaneous and artificial evacuation ... / [John Anderson].

  • Anderson, John, approximately 1730-1804.
Date:
1787
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Credit: Medical remarks on natural, spontaneous and artificial evacuation ... / [John Anderson]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    When adults vomit fpontaneoufly, it is ne- ceffary to explore and find out the primary in¬ citing caufe before any attempt is made to rcprefs or encourage it. For inftance, if in the nervous hyfteric patient it is fuddenly re- prefled by opium or aftringents, anxiety, op- preffion, convulfions of the limbs, will come on, and the ficknefs return with greater violence. If the emotion fhould happen to be occa- fioned by a difcharge of the .catamenia from the mouth, to flop It haftily would pervert Nature, and check her falutary defign; per¬ haps throw iron the brainj and, as I have fe- veral times feen, produce mania. But In hoe- moptyfis, or calling up of blood, attended with inflammation or fever, the flimulus ot an emetic would only enrage the fymptoms, which refrigerants and cooling reftringents might diminifli. On the proper tone, contraflille power and warmth of the ftomach, depend the har¬ mony and energy of the fyftem : atony, weak- nefs and frigidity, produce its difcord. As the ftomach is the primary feat and center of many of the motions in remote parts of the fyflemj /