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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    appearance, when deobstruent laxatives and ape- rients may be combined with tonics, in order to restore the vital energy, and promote the func- tions of the organs of digestion and assimilation. In disorders of this description, palliatives ought never to be resorted to; otherwise, disease, which at first was more or less confined to the digestive organs, will extend itself to the ab- sorbent and secreting glands, and even to the brain and nervous system. It should also be kept in recollection, that accumulations of viscid matter often form in the cells of the colon in these complaints. These are difficult to remove in proportion to the time that they have been allowed to remain; and they often produce much constitutional disturbance, which is frequently attributed to other causes. These accumulations frequently do not prevent the operation of purga- tives, but the motions are generally fluid and somewhat offensive, even although the colour may not be particularly unnatural. This ready procuration of stools upon the exhibition of a purgative, is apt to prevent the real nature of the disorder from being suspected ; but whenever the state of the bowels and the stools, the ap-- pearance of the tongue, and the tumidity and tenderness of the abdomen, with the continuation of debility, emaciation, and constitutional disturb- ance, lead us to suspect this condition of the large intestines,—purgatives, as calomel and aloes.