Medical, philosophical, and vulgar errors, of various kinds, considered and refuted / by John Jones, M. B.

  • Jones, John, 1726?-
Date:
1797
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    purge is intended, care mould be taken to forbid the patient drinking any thing which may dilute away its ftrength. What, in my opinion, may have given the firfl rife to this practice, muft have been an attempt, by a great rufh of fome mild warm liquor, to diffolve and diflodge fuch hard aloetic pills, or fubftances of an acrid, infoluble, adhasfive quality ; which, by flicking fall to fome part of an inteftine, like fhoe-maker's wax, may have caufed violent painful gripings by their inflaming, fretting, and penetrating the part. This mode of relieving the patient not having been clearly undei flood, as to its operation, has continued to be fafhionable, gripe or not gripe; even when the caufe requiring it did not exift; as in Glaubers fait, or any other fo foluble and mifcible with the gaftric, and enteric liquors it had to meet with in the prima vice. I will rifk my reputation in being the firfl perfon that ever fet his face againft a very great abfurdity, which has hitherto never been fufpetted of being fuch, viz. an abiolute neceffity of a very Ariel: regimen, and