A practical treatise on various diseases of the abdominal viscera / by Christopher Robert Pemberton.

  • Pemberton, Christopher Robert, 1765-1822.
Date:
1820
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A practical treatise on various diseases of the abdominal viscera / by Christopher Robert Pemberton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    we must adopt the measures appropriated to such a disorder; but if it takes place in consequence of suppressed menstruation, we may take away about six ounces of blood from the arm, a day or two previous to the period at which the haemorrhage would have returned. We should also direct small doses of neutral salts to be taken every eight hours in a weak infusion of some astringent bitter. By a perseverance in this plan, the pa- tient will probably be gradually restored to health.