Peptic precepts : pointing out agreeable and effectual methods to prevent and relieve indigestion, and to regulate and invigorate the action of the stomach and bowels / by the author of The cook's oracle.

  • Kitchiner, William, 1775?-1827.
Date:
1821
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Credit: Peptic precepts : pointing out agreeable and effectual methods to prevent and relieve indigestion, and to regulate and invigorate the action of the stomach and bowels / by the author of The cook's oracle. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Not one Constitution in an hundred, is so happily constructed or is constantly in such perfect adjustment, that the operations of the Abdominal Viscera (on which every other movement of the system depends) proceed with healthy regularity.—The following hints will point out to the Reader, how to employ Art to afford that assistance to Nature, which in Indisposition and Age, is so often required. To humour that desire for the marvellous, which is so universal in medical (as well as in other) matters, the makers of Aperient Fills generally select the most Drastic Purga- tives, which operating considerably, in a dose of a few grains, excite admiration in the patient, and faith in their powers, in proportion, as a small dose, produces a great effect,—not con- sidering, how irritating such materials must be, and consequently how injurious to a Stomach in a state of debility, and perhaps deranged by indulging Appetite beyond the bounds of moderation.