On indigestion and costiveness : with hints to both sexes on the important, safe, and efficacious means of relieving diseases of the digestive organs by lavements: including directions for the selection and use of apparatuses for their administration: and the best medicinal preparations for intestinal and other injections. To which is added, observations on the mode of preserving health and prolonging life, by air, exercise, sleep, clothing, etc. Including many useful family prescriptions. The whole illustrated by coloured engravings / By Edward Jukes, Surgeon, inventor of the stomach-pump.

  • Jukes, Edward.
Date:
1831
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Credit: On indigestion and costiveness : with hints to both sexes on the important, safe, and efficacious means of relieving diseases of the digestive organs by lavements: including directions for the selection and use of apparatuses for their administration: and the best medicinal preparations for intestinal and other injections. To which is added, observations on the mode of preserving health and prolonging life, by air, exercise, sleep, clothing, etc. Including many useful family prescriptions. The whole illustrated by coloured engravings / By Edward Jukes, Surgeon, inventor of the stomach-pump. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    TO THE SECOND EDITION. The almost unprecedented rapidity with which the sale of the First Edition of this little Work has been effected, must be a source of the highest gratification to the feelings of the Author, who cannot but ven- ture to indulge in the belief, that those of his readers who have been led to adopt the system of medicine advocated by him, have already experienced its decided superiority over every other kind of practice. Stimulated by this conviction, and flattered by the reception of his first publication, he is encouraged to offer to the Public a Second Edition, which he has endeavoured mate- rially to improve ; it will also be found con- siderably enlarged, and to contain much