Curatives v. palliatives : being a short treatise on the fallacy of preferring temporary relief to radical cure : with a few hints on self-treatment in the extensive class of disease known as bilious / by Howard Styles.

  • Styles, Howard.
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[1835]
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    positive increase of the deraiii>eineiits in tlie system it professes to relieve. I was once consulted on the Continent by an EntJ-lish Baronet, whose countenance sufficiently indicated considerable derangement of the Bilious system. It was what the French so well express by the word Jaunatre—a truly bilious yellow. He told me that for the preceding four years he had no action on the Bowels without the aid of medi- cine, and his system had become so habituated to this false and erroneous treatment, that notwith- standing he rung the changes on all the Purgative remedies, he was compelled to take such enormous doses, that his existence was miserable. The origin of the disorder, like many others of this stamp, was in irregular living, and he had recourse to the usual palliative remedies for relieving Sick Head Ache, nausea, and the remaining consequen- ces of too frequent indulgence in the pleasures of the table. Here, then, was apparently a desperate case to cure. I stated my opinion, which was that I considered it by no means difficult to cure him, but it would require great self-denial and perseverance on his part; such, indeed, that I was afraid he would not go on with a M^eek, but if he could make up his mind to try it, I would engage to say in three months he should be very