A practical treatise on various diseases of the abdominal viscera / by Christopher Robert Pemberton.

  • Pemberton, Christopher Robert, 1765-1822.
Date:
1820
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A practical treatise on various diseases of the abdominal viscera / by Christopher Robert Pemberton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    in moderation, of all kinds, with a due proportion of dressed vegetables, is the diet best calculated to remove the predis- position to the disease. The patient should be directed to desist from all fermented liquors Horse exercise is particularly beneficial, and should be strongly recommended. This, however, is not always within the reach of the patient; who, in such case, should never fail to take daily, at least two hours exercise in walk- ing, and the exercise ought always to be such as to produce a gentle perspiration on the skin.* As a medicine well calculated to correct this state of stomach, and also to secure a proper evacuation from the bowels, we may recommend half a pint of Seidlitz water containing!:three drachms of Maones: sulphas every morning, or every other morning. * Exercitationis auteai plcrumque finis esse debet sudor, aut certe lassitude, qua3 citra fatigationem sit. Celsus, Lib. I. Cap. 2.