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

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    old has taken twelve grains of the Pulvis e Scammoniocum Calomelane,in union with as many grains of Extractuin Jalapii, with- out producing more than one evacuation. I have heard of even much larger doses than this having been given with no greater effect. The regulation therefore of the quantity of the purgative, must be left to the judgment of the practitioner. I wish, however, to give a caution re- specting the degree of purging, as I think it ought never to be carried to a great length, the intention being merely to re- move the contents of the bowels, and not to produce any great discharge from their glands. If we do not attend to this cir- cumstance, the intestines will become dis- tended with air, and the patient may run the risk of being destroyed with every symptom of Tympanitis.* When the bowels have been once ren- * Ne tamen Cerevisia primum affusa, Rhei vi cathartics saturatius impreegnata, justo vehementius alvum cieat, cautius agimus, si, &c. Sydenham, p. 536. Ed. Lugd. Bat. 1726. And also, a similar caution respecting the purging of