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Page 9
... occasionally to yield to the principle I am now illustrating , the use of food as a stimulant . A gentleman , about forty years of age , when living , in point of diet , as he thought , very care- fully , exceeded his strength by ...
... occasionally to yield to the principle I am now illustrating , the use of food as a stimulant . A gentleman , about forty years of age , when living , in point of diet , as he thought , very care- fully , exceeded his strength by ...
Page 44
... occasionally valuable even chamomile tea ( a teacup of a very weak infusion ) taken on rising , sometimes has a sensible effect ; gentian , again , columbo , the infusion of orange - peel , combined with five grains of carbo- nate of ...
... occasionally valuable even chamomile tea ( a teacup of a very weak infusion ) taken on rising , sometimes has a sensible effect ; gentian , again , columbo , the infusion of orange - peel , combined with five grains of carbo- nate of ...
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... occasional use of aperient medicine when necessary , will often completely restore the tone of the stomach in this trivial disorder . In place of the infusion of orange - peel , twenty drops of the compound tincture of gentian , in ...
... occasional use of aperient medicine when necessary , will often completely restore the tone of the stomach in this trivial disorder . In place of the infusion of orange - peel , twenty drops of the compound tincture of gentian , in ...
Page 57
... occasional nausea and vomiting , one would entertain serious apprehensions of chronic inflam- mation , thickening , ulceration . In such a case , the greatest abstinence , leeches to the pit of the sto- mach , blisters , a superficial ...
... occasional nausea and vomiting , one would entertain serious apprehensions of chronic inflam- mation , thickening , ulceration . In such a case , the greatest abstinence , leeches to the pit of the sto- mach , blisters , a superficial ...
Page 58
... occasionally takes place , the same is produced by violent bodily exertion on a full stomach . If any inward action is going wrong , if a gall - stone is passing through the gall - duct , a calculus descending from the kidney ...
... occasionally takes place , the same is produced by violent bodily exertion on a full stomach . If any inward action is going wrong , if a gall - stone is passing through the gall - duct , a calculus descending from the kidney ...
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Management of the Organs of Digestion: In Health and in Disease (1837) Herbert Mayo No preview available - 2008 |
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Page xii - THERE is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic : a man's own observation, what he finds good of, and what he finds hurt of, is the best physic to preserve health...