Observations on the utility and administration of purgative medicines in several diseases / by James Hamilton.

  • Hamilton, James, 1749-1835.
Date:
1826
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    I feel myfelf at perfect liberty to make thefe re- flexions ; becaufe, in the cafe now before us, the caufe alTumed, to account for vomiting of blood, proceeds upon limited, or miftaken information. Sufpended menftruation is not a neceifary concomi- tant of hsematemefis, which appears when the menfes are regular. I do not know in what proportion of inftances this is the cafe ; but if it be fo in one in- ftance, this one inftance overturns the theory, does away the vicarious nature of h^matemefis, and gives it a place, where I conceive it ought to have one, among idiopathic difeafes. About ten years ago. Dr. Gafldng, of Plymouth, paired a feafon in Edinburgh.—I had the pleafure to be acquainted with him, and I cultivated his friend- fliip. At this time I had afcertained the efficacy of purgative medicines in feveral difeafes : I converfed with Dr. Calking freely on thefe fubjefts, communi- cating the obfervations I had made. Dr. Calking frequently walked the hofpital with me. He obferved a patient labouring under vomit- ing of blood, whom I had been treating in the ufual routine, with cooling acidulous medicines, and with different emenagogues, to no good purpofe. He re- quefted me to open her bowels with calomel; he ^ fpoke