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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Credit: Observations on the utility and administration of purgative medicines in several diseases / by James Hamilton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    I have followed ihe practice which this cafe fug- gefted, in the inftances of the difeafe which I have fince met with ; and my fuccefs has been fo uni- form, that I now lay it down as a certain pofition, that the proper exhibition of purgative medicines af- fords fure, and efFeclual means of removing haema- temefis, the fubje£t of this chapter. The purgatives, which I have ufed in thefe cafes, have never excited vomiting; and, what may be thought fmgular, I have, never been able to afcertain the prefence of blood in the feces. As the ftrength of patients labouring under this vomiting of blood is generally pretty entire, we need not dread full purging ; but this effed is not want- ed ; if we unload the bowels, we accomphfh the cure. The feces which are brought off are copious, un- natural in colour, confiflence, and fmell, as they ge- nerally are after long remora, the confequence of obflinate, and protrafted coftivenefs. The different circumftances, which not only ex. pofe women to coftivenefs more readily than men, but, when it does occur, to a more obftinate kind of it.