A treatise on bowel complaints: intended for the use of physicians, families, parents, masters of vessels etc. in the United States / By John G. Vought.

  • Vought, John G. (John Graff), 1791-1832.
Date:
1823
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Credit: A treatise on bowel complaints: intended for the use of physicians, families, parents, masters of vessels etc. in the United States / By John G. Vought. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Flatuient cholic, when there is costiveness, griping in the bowels, a rumbling noise, distention of the sto- mach, pain severe, with an inclination to vomit, &c. Hysteric cholic, when there is nausea and sickness at the stomach, severe spasms, costiveness, an d dejec- tion of spirits, &e. : ¥n all cases there is evidently an irritating substance contraction of the abdominal muscles, and sometimes violent inflammation, coldness of the extremities, dis- tention of the stomach by a collection of wind, vom- iting, obstinate cestiveness, and sometimes an evacu- ation of feeces by the mouth, (a very disagreeable and distressing symptom) called the iliac passion. The pain shifts its situation, and is not confined particular- ly to one spot. : This disease is called cholic, from its being more directly seated in the intestine called the colon, than any other. It is called by such a variety of names, on account of its symptoms, such as, coltca biliosa, from excess of bile in the bowels; cofica calculosa, from stony substances in the intestines ; colica febricosa, or colica misenterica, from diseased misentery ; ; ‘colica nervosa, nervous cholic; colica pituitosa, or spasmod- tion of the different affections, I should not expect to make my readers understand any thing about them distinctly. It would be like confounding langnagess in my HEM and of no use whatever. Such pains as occur in cases f cholic, in every sense of the word, are sometimes found to occur in cases of dysentery, diarrhoea, cholera morbus, &c. and were it not fer costiveness alone, it would sometines nduoe yr