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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    moi/ter and cleaner, and a feeble creeping pulfe ac- quired a firmer beat. Reflefting afterwards on thefe circumflances, it occurred to me, as the purgative effeft appeared to have been the ufeful one, that any purgative medi- cine might be fubftituted, for the calx antimonii ni- trata; and that by this fubftitution, the unnecelTary debilitation of an exhaufted patient, by vomiting and fweating might be avoided. More extended experience confirmed thefe con- jedlures ; and I was gradually encouraged to employ purgative medicines early, in typhus, and to repeat them in the courfe of the difeafe. And after having long and ftriftly direded my attention to this point of praftice, I am now thoroughly perfuaded, that the full and regular evacuation of the bowels, relieves the oppreffion of the fl:omach,and mitigates the other fymptoms of fever. Farther, I am difpofed to refer the ufcfulnefs of purgative medicines, to their afting through the whole extent of the inteftines, and to their confe- quent moving and conveying off feculent matter ren- dered offenfive and irritating, by conltipation, and by the changed nature of the fluids fecreted into the internal canal; a change which appears to take place S2 in