Physiological reflections on the destructive operation of spiritous and fermented liquors on the animal system / by Thomas Forster.

  • Forster, T. (Thomas Ignatius Maria), 1789-1860.
Date:
1812
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    P. 31.1. 21. Polypi have hitherto been looked upon as incapable of being got rid of except by extraction. I have, liowever, been recently well assured, that in several cases in which the patient has,refused to sub- mit to the operation, the polypi have gradually died away after the stomach and bowels had been brought into a more healthy state by alterative medicines. For authority, consult Abernethy, Const. Orig. Loc. Dis. (supra citato), p. 18Q. • P. 41. 1. 10. Consult M. Halle, Mem. Soc. Roy. Med. snr le traitement de la Manie Atribilaire, <^c. Aber- netby,above cited, &c. a . ■ ^ n - ! ■ III ■ i i ■ ■ . I .zo.l - ■ ■ . i. • In,the above account I have spoken, only of those diseases which belong to Europeans in temperate cli- mates, and which we daily witness. The same mode of reasoning, however, 1 believe to be applicable to other diseases, the peculiarities of which being de- pendent on the atmosphere and customs , of distant countries, are known only abroad in the polar or tropi- cal regions. People have in general rather appeared assiduous to describe the varieties in the e.xternal ap- pearances of such diseases, than to investigate their history, and the habits of life and state of general health of the patient, antecedant to their occurrence. Till, however, such an inquiry shall be made, and the re- sults delivered to the public, 1 shall continue to reason from analogy, and to think the evidence afforded in this country, and before my own eyes, and corrobo- rated by the history of diseases given by superior and eminent observers, sufficient to establish the opinion that whatever may be the peculiarities of diseases, varied