On cold bathing, considered in its purgative effect, in fever, dyspepsia, cholera, tetanus, and in the treatment of infants / Extr. from Dr. Hamilton's Observations on ... purgative medicines, 8th ed.

  • Hamilton, James, 1749-1835
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[1826?]
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    to arrange them as a genus* under the name of dys- pepsia ; the proximate cause of which he considered to be “ imbecility, loss of tone, and weakness of the muscular fibres of the stomach.” First Lines, edi- tion 1789? paragraph 1193. The latter symptoms of the ailment may have sug- gested this doctrine, which, nevertheless, does not appear to be supported by facts. Under the view, however, which it presents, the Usual routine of prac- tice, by what are understood to be tonic medicines, bitters, astringents, and chalybeates, and by anti- spasmodics and anodynes, is continued. The two last of these, while they are palliatives only of par- ticular symptoms, may introduce injurious habits; and the former often disappoint expectation, and by protracted use aggravate the supposed loss of tone, in place of remedying it. First Lines, paragraph 1214. The medical inquirer is thus left in a dilemma; either the debility of the muscular fibres of the sto- mach does not exist, or the tonic medicines do not possess the virtues attributed to them. The constipation of the body, which has been no-.