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.
- Date:
- [1835]
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Credit: 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. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![friend, a physician of lono- standing. Hearing the details of the case, he M'ished for a consultation, which was held, the patient all the time ])eino- greatly reduced, still in extreme pain, but per- fectly collected. The case was detailed to each, he was examined, but nothing could be seen—the surface of the pain was only tender on pressure; and the only conclusion they could come to was, that it was a puzzling case. The physician, how- ever, said, as the other two had not been success- ful in hitting the case, he would act on an idea which struck him ; viz. that there was a lodgment of matter in the colon, or largest of the bowels. He ordered injections to be thrown up three times a day, as hot as the patient could bear them, in order, if possible, to dislodge the hardened substance he expected to find—and he was right; the second injection commenced the business, relieved the pain—the patient, after being in agony for several days, found himself, as it were, in heaven, and a few more injections relieved him from an immense quantity of hard matter that had collected and indur'4,ted in the colon—and nothing remained for him but to recover strength. It was, from the time of his attack, thirteen weeks before he was able to resume his avocations, After the dis- covery of the actual cause of his illness, the qucs-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21483358_0028.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
