A treatise on the tonic system of treating affections of the stomach and brain: comprehending an account of the causes and nature of impairment of the constitution, indigestion, determination of blood to the head, impairment and morbid excitation of the brian, paralysis, apoplexy, and insanity / [Henry Searle].

  • Searle, Henry.
Date:
1843
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Credit: A treatise on the tonic system of treating affections of the stomach and brain: comprehending an account of the causes and nature of impairment of the constitution, indigestion, determination of blood to the head, impairment and morbid excitation of the brian, paralysis, apoplexy, and insanity / [Henry Searle]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    most, and often the only, effectual means of dis¬ lodging these accumulations is, the daily injection of one or two tablespoonsful of gall, diluted with a pint of warm water; and notwithstanding the efficiency of this means, it will be often requisite to persevere with it during one or two months, in order to completely unload the bowmls, the amount of the accumulation in some cases being truly astonishing. Long after this is accomplished, the injection should be occasionally repeated, as the colon remains in a distended condition, favourable to reaccumulations. It is sometimes advisable, on account of the torpid state of the bowels, to employ purgative medicines as wTell as the injections, and if both are administered at bedtime, the action of one will not interfere with that of the other ; as the medicine administered on the former evening will, during the day, remove the recent accumulation, while the injection will act upon the old lodgements. Nutritious Diet.—The insane are generally dis¬ posed to take food very freely, but while the bowels are much disordered, nutritious food is admini¬ stered under disadvantage ; it is notwithstanding of considerable service, and is the more requisite on account of the depression which is often occasioned by unloading the bowels. The diet should con¬ sist of as much animal food as can be conveniently taken. For men, a pound of animal food in the