Observations, from experience, on the aid obtained, in various diseases, particularly those incidental to tropical climates, by the external application of the nitro-muriatic acid, in a bath : with several cases, wherein it has been used by the author with great utility ; to which is added, the present most approved mode of mixing the acids, and preparing the bath / by Phineas Coyne.

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1822
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Credit: Observations, from experience, on the aid obtained, in various diseases, particularly those incidental to tropical climates, by the external application of the nitro-muriatic acid, in a bath : with several cases, wherein it has been used by the author with great utility ; to which is added, the present most approved mode of mixing the acids, and preparing the bath / by Phineas Coyne. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    favoured us with his symptoms, for, “ in common language,” bilious seems to imply pretty nearly as much as the vague word nervous, and generally with as little meaning.—When the action of the liver is excited by any cause, and a greater quantity of bile than usual Hows into the intestines, and some into the stomach, producing slight purging, and perhaps vomiting of bile, the person thus affected, may be said (with propriety) to be bilious. But then others tell you they are bilious, when there is scarce a particle of bile in the in- testines to perform the necessan/functions, and the liver, for days, perhaps weeks or months, almost in a state of torpor. A Bond-street lounger will tell you he is extremely bilious, in consequence of being up all night at a rout and ball, eating supper and drinking wine, &:c. §c.; when the fact really is, a quantity of crude matter is accumulated in the stomach, in consequence of a late dinner, and the precipitate gorging of heterogeneous viands; upon which the gastric juice, with the other powers of the stomach, are unable to act, or perform what is termed chymification.—So far is the bile from being accessary to the sufferings of a person in such a state as I have just described, that it might be said to be patiently waiting the arrival of the prepared food in the duodenum, to assist the completion of digestion. An emetic will quickly relieve all the ideal biliousness. 1 have often seen persons in this state (called bilious) suffering for days, nature attempt- ing to relieve herself, and the stomach, as if labouring to perform its functions. To a medical man it will not appear so extraordinary, that undigested food should remain so long in the stomach, without passing on to the intestines; but to others of my readers, it may not be unnecessary to state, that the inferior aperture of the stomach, called the pylorus,