Sketches of the most prevalent diseases of India : comprising a treatise on the epidemic cholera of the East, statistical and topographical reports of the diseases in the different division of the army under the Madras presidency / by James Annesley.

  • Annesley, James, Sir, 1780-1847.
Date:
1829
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    advanced stages of the disease. And I think there is great advantage derived from removing this disordered secretion by the means already indicated, inasmuch as the calomel seems to change its character in the course of operation, whilst this medicine itself appears to be in some degree decomposed in the course of its admix- ture with this secretion, and rendered more mild in its action upon the inferior parts of the canal. These inferences being admitted, more parti- cularly the undoubted effect which the calomel produces upon the secretion which lines the in- ternal surface of the duodenum, and which often obstructs the mouths of the ducts that open into this intestine, it must follow, that a very bene- ficial operation of calomel in dysentery consists in the removal of the obstruction thus placed in the way of the secretions which flow from these ducts. It appears, in conformity with the laws and objects of nature, that the combined opera- tion of the biliary and pancreatic secretions upon the intestines should be necessary to the healthy; discharge of the functions of these organs, and that their entire or partial obstruction must be followed by disorder of those parts, for the pur- poses and healthy condition of which they are intended. Hence the propriety of endeavouring to remove every obstruction which may stand in the way of the biliary and pancreatic fluids, in order that their salutary operation upon the