A treatise on clinical medicine, being a compendious and systematic introduction to practice, as contained in the memoranda of I. R. Bischoff / From the German, by Joseph Cope.

  • Bischoff, Ignaz Rudolph, Edler von Altenstern, 1784-1850
Date:
1827
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    Constipation. The greatest number of diseases owe their ori- gin to constipation of the bowels ; of itself this is seldom considered as a disease, though by many days continuance, it produces violent colics, and even incurable inflammations. On the other hand, we learn from experience, that the most obstinate cases of costiveness often yield to a mild treatment; this, the following case will prove:— An embroiderer, twenty-six years old, from her sedentary mode of life, had no stools during nine days ; various domestic remedies were tried in vain, she came in consequence on the 23d of April into the clinical hospital, free from fever; the abdomen was hard and tense, and on moderate pressure she felt a darting pain in the left flank. She had ordered, emollient glysters, and Decoct. Gramin. 5viij ; Magnes. sulph. 5j 5 hy which she had one evacuation, hard, and in small quantity ; by the continuance of the same remedies during the following days, several loose evacuations took place, and, as they were accompanied by griping, powders with half a grain of the extract of hyos- cyamus were given, and afterwards her medicine was changed for Inf. R. Caryophyll. cum Tinct. Rhei. in order to remove the want of tone in the intestinal tube, which was in this case the cause of the obstruction. From the continuance of this remedy, the alvine excretion became regular, and after three weeks she left the hospital cured. DISEASES OF THE LYMPHATIC SYSTEM. Dropsy. Next to consumption, the difierent kinds of dropsy are of chronic diseases, those which most