Homeopathic principles and practice of medicine / by W.H. Dickinson.

  • Dickinson, W. H. (Wilmot Horton), 1829-
Date:
1883
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    CHAPTER II. DIAEEHCEA AND CHOLEEA INFANTUM. DIARRHCEA, VARIETIES OF—CAUSATION—TREATMENT—DIET. CHOLERA INFANTUM, VARIETIES OF—PROGNOSIS—CAUSATION—TREATMENT. DIARRHCEA. Varieties of.—Diarrhoea means an abnormal condition of the dejections from the bowels. They are too frequent, too liquid, and usually of a different color and odor. There are many different varieties of the affection based upon the differ- ing characters of the dejections I have mentioned. Indeed there are few diseases presenting so many differing conditions as this. • Different writers give different classifications, or varieties. Some too many, others too few; some make fanciful distinc- tions without any practical value. The varieties of which I shall speak are: 1. Fecal, where the discharges are abnor- mally liquid, but still retain the characteristic fecal odor. This variety is commonly called bilious diarrhoea. 2. Ca- tarrhal diarrhoea, or irritation and inflammation of the mu- cous coat of the intestines. 3. Transient diarrhoea, which is induced by mental emotions or the eating of food which ir- ritates the digestive canal. 4. Serous diarrhoea, character- ized by profuse watery discharges, in which there seems to be transudation through the walls of the intestines. 5. Lien- teric, in which the evacuations contain undigested food; and, 6th, colliquative, dependent upon organic disease elsewhere. Most of these forms of diarrhoea may be produced by the ac- tion of various medicines. Castor oil and Mercury, the first; Colocynth, Jalap and Croton oil the second; the hydragogne cathartics as Elaterium, Podophyllum, Eujpliorbium the fourth. Drugs which seriously impair the power of diges- tion represent the fifth. Concerning the symptoms of the