Medical remarks on natural, spontaneous and artificial evacuation ... / [John Anderson].

  • Anderson, John, approximately 1730-1804
Date:
1788
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Credit: Medical remarks on natural, spontaneous and artificial evacuation ... / [John Anderson]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    important efFefts. The emetic not only cleanfes the ftomach of crude indigeftible matter, but fympathetically influences the remotefl: parts of the fyflem to a difcharge of their contents, and thereby purilies the body of morbid or noxious particles. Nothing, therefore, is fo elFeftual as the emetic for relieving a cough, or difficult refpiration ; for it opens obflrufted fecretions, promotes cxpeftoration, encreafes tranfpiration, and takes off the oppletion, or fulnefs, from the veflcles of the lungs, head, faucial, and mi- liary glands ; and thereby admits of a free aod regular circulation through the extreme capillary veffels. Ipecacuanha and antimony are the firfl: of the vegetable and mineral emetics. Ipeca- cuanha, as being afafe and certain one, is in moft general ufe ; but antimony, for certain indications, is much more effeftual : fuch as in the ftubborn chronic difeafe, that requires the very a£tive, diffufive and lafling medicine. Sal vitrioli is a more efficacious emetic than ipecacuanha in dyfentery, though deemed its fpecific. Squill emetics are better adapted for peftoral ftuffings. Either muftard or horfe-radifli are a good emetic for gout in the ftomach;