Practical observations on the symptoms, discriminations, and treatment of some of the most important diseases of the lower intestines, and anus ... To which are added, some suggestions upon a new and successful mode of correcting habitual confinement in the bowels ... / By John Howship.

  • Howship, John, 1781-1841.
Date:
1824
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Credit: Practical observations on the symptoms, discriminations, and treatment of some of the most important diseases of the lower intestines, and anus ... To which are added, some suggestions upon a new and successful mode of correcting habitual confinement in the bowels ... / By John Howship. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CHAPTER VIII. ON THE MEANS BEST CALCULATED TO ESTABLISH A REGULAR STATE AND ACTION OF THE BOWELS, AS ESSENTIALLY CONDUCIVE TO THE PREVENTION OF MOST OF THE ABOVE DISEASES. 304. Of the numerous diseases to which the hu- man frame is subject, there are but few, very few, that may not either be produced, or greatly aggra- vated, by habitual derangement in the functions of the alimentary canal. The accustomed usages of society; the nature and quantity of the food we eat; the modes of exercise and of rest, together with our manner of clothing; all appear to me calculated to interfere, more or less, with the regularity of action, and consequently with the proper functions of the bowels. Upon these considerations, how- ever, I confess myself to enter with some degree of diffidence, after having read the comprehensive, and beautifully eloquent work of Mr. Abernethy, upon this subject. 30,5. The original intention of the great Author of nature may be partially traced, in the diversity of provisions appointed for enabling the animal machine to support itself under the various cir- cumstances in which it may be placed. The dif- ferent systems of parts of which the living body is made up, and the particular functions assigned to each of those systems, display, on many occasions, the most admirable facility, as well as power, of harmonizing with each other, for the promotion of the general good, and the maintenance of health ; no one proceeding independently, but each moving