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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    AV faithfully peruse the following pages, and one of her children should be taken with this awful disease, which has committed great devastations upon the human. race, she will then be made acquainted with its cause and nature, and be put in possession of a remedy, and thus, probably, be enabled to save her child from an untimely grave. ‘Those families who ase placed in similar situations, will find it highly important to keep on hand a supply of such medicines as they are ac- quainted with, and with whose virtues they are famil- iar. The observations on worms in the alimentary canal, will, I trust, consmunicate soine useful ideas to mar- ried ladies, who have young children. It will inform them what habits and constitutions are most likely to become subject to an excess of worms in the alimentary canal. ‘They will be instructed what remedies will de- stroy them, without injuring the constitution; and also what remedies are sometimes used, that have in many... instances proved dangerous, and become the means of’ exciting in the system some other disease. The diagnostic symptoms, designed to give a coni- petent knowledge for distinguishing the different forms. of disease, are mentioned in this work; which may enable the reader to hit on a mode of treatment, with more certainty and correctness. The variable prognostic symptoms are not particu- larly dwelt upon. ‘They only serve to satisfy a natu- ral curiosity, which leads us to inquire whether a dis- ease will terminate in health, anether disease, or death. Those symptoms often deceive the most accurate ob- server. Although we should not make light of any case, as there is scarcely one disease that has not, di- rectly or indirectly, proved an outlet to human life, still it is impossible to tell, in acute diseases, where