Commentaries on the use and necessity of lavements in the correction of habitual constipation, and in the treatment of those diseases which are occasioned or aggravated by intestinal accumulation and irritation, or which are susceptible of modification through the sympathetic relations of the lower bowels, including also, a copious formulary of intestinal injections with directions for their application / [James Scott].

  • Scott, James
Date:
1829
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Credit: Commentaries on the use and necessity of lavements in the correction of habitual constipation, and in the treatment of those diseases which are occasioned or aggravated by intestinal accumulation and irritation, or which are susceptible of modification through the sympathetic relations of the lower bowels, including also, a copious formulary of intestinal injections with directions for their application / [James Scott]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    words, nascent water is produced simulta¬ neously with the evolution of the carbon* from the same seed. 4. “ The elimination of so much carbon by the lungs, argues the simultaneous formation of new compounds from the same portion of blood; that is, while within these organs. One of these may be water. 5. “ The exhalation of water from the lungs can¬ not be a process of simple evaporation from a secretion on the surface of the air-cells,* for otherwise therewould accumulate an inevapor- able residuum, which is not the case when the lungs are in a healthy state. It is a true exhalation, an evolution of water in the state of vapour: and if the writer, after adducing the preceding facts, be allowed to offer a theory, he would suggest, whether this may not be nascent water, resulting from the de¬ composition of a compound existing in venous blood, the hydrogen and oxygen recombining, but assuming the state of vapour, at the same moment the carbon of the compound unites to the atmospheric oxygen ? There is, indeed, * “ It was not till some time after the above was written and waiting for the press, the writer learned that Dr. Edwards, in treating of the aqueous vapour which comes off with the breath, concludes that J the lungs transpire only by means of evaporation, and not by transudation/ ”