Simplicity of health / exemplified by Hortator.

  • Hortator, pseud.
Date:
1829
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Credit: Simplicity of health / exemplified by Hortator. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    115. Now, what docs this prove? As long as the piles were in operation, they carried off, in powerful dis- charges, the superabundant blood, and most probably other redundant secretions besides. When they were rendered generally unnecessary—when they stopped, merely by continued regularity of congenial living, which reduced the interna! economy to a proper standard and just proportions, they could not be excited to act, in order, singly and exclusively, to counteract the sanguineous stimulation arising from the strong tea. Ingenious ob- jections may be offered to this conclusion, but it rests upon a fact that I consider to be a good foundation. 11G. This complaint is said fo belong to the costive or sedentary ; but 1 have known those who were martyrs to constipation, and those who exercised little, entirely free from it. The opinion is, however, generally true, and persons afflicted with it should, as I before advised, pay undivided attention to the freedom of their bowels; and, if their occupation be of a sedentary nature, they should adopt the plan of standing (AO), which, exclusive of its other beneficial effects, is, in this case, a very great con- venience. 117. Fearing that I might have spoken too lightly of the consequences of hemorrhoids, it is proper to say that they sometimes become so painful and inflamed as to require the lancet or knife. When this is necessary, it should only be intrusted to a surgeon of the highest rank. Simple as the operation may appear, it demands the most profound judgment, as the most trifling error may convert those plain tumours into a confirmed fistula. And 1 must also observe, that the discharges of blood are sometimes so great as to reduce the sufferer to an alarming state of debility. A physician should then be called, and he will here find quite enough to exercise bis skill in administering sucb medicines as may give relief, without endangering the future health of his patient. 118. As for general directions, I can do little more than recapitulate what 1 have already said. Whether piles bleed or not, no hasty cure or stoppage should ever