Short remarks upon autumnal disorders of the bowels, and on the nature of some sudden deaths, observed to happen at the same season of the year : Thoughts on the natural causes of the bile's putrescency, and its noxiousness in the circulation. Physiological thoughts on spasms, and the seat and origin of them in the animal oeconomy / by Andrew Wilson.

  • Wilson, Andrew, in Path-head.
Date:
1765
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Credit: Short remarks upon autumnal disorders of the bowels, and on the nature of some sudden deaths, observed to happen at the same season of the year : Thoughts on the natural causes of the bile's putrescency, and its noxiousness in the circulation. Physiological thoughts on spasms, and the seat and origin of them in the animal oeconomy / by Andrew Wilson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ever eafily cured the jaundice is com¬ monly imagined to be, I fay, if the ob- ftru&ion is obftinate, an increafe of the bilous fecretion while it mult be re- abforbed will heighten the difeafe and the fymptoms of it upon the fkin. Th e feat of the dry Gripes, an au¬ tumnal diforder here, but common I apprehend at all times in hot equinoxial climates among thofe who are natives of colder countries, feems to be more con¬ fined to the fmall guts. It diftinguifhes itfelf from the Iliac paffion, by its not riling to fuch an acute inflammatory height as it does, by the pulfe not be¬ ing fo hard and quick, which on the contrary is fometimes remarkably Hug- gifh; it alfo characterizes itfelf by the black colour and knotty Hate of the ex¬ crements when they are forced off, and by the pulfe both riling and quicken¬ ing upon the obftruftions being diflodg- ed. It is the reverfe of the Dyfentery principally in this; in the oi^e cafe the D 2 feat