 In time the cuftom becomes neceflary, and generally ends in a total relaxation of the bowels, indigeftion, lofs of appetite, wafting of the ftrength, and death. When the body cannot be kept open without medicine, we would recommend gentle dofes of rhubarb...  The Mother's Medical Guide in Children's Diseases - Page 87by William Andrus Alcott - 1845 - 314 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Buchan - Medicine, Popular - 1798 - 834 pages
...olives, almonds, paftaches, and the fruits themfelves; all oily and mild fruits, as of taking medicine or keeping the body open, who could leave it off. In time the cuftom becomes 1 neccflary, and generally ends in a total relaxation of the bowels, indigeftion, lofs... | |
 | William Buchan - Medicine - 1813 - 396 pages
...attended with many inconveniencies, and often with bad confequences *. I never knew any one get into a habit of taking medicine for keeping the body open, who could leave it off. In time the cuftom becomes neceflary, and generally ends in a total relaxation of the bowels, indigeftion, lofs... | |
 | James C. Whorton - Health & Fitness - 2000 - 704 pages
...organ reliant on the artificial stimulus of ever-increasing quantities of drugs. "I never knew anyone get into the habit of taking medicine for keeping the body open," a Scottish physician stated, "who could leave it off. . . . Every dose makes way for another, till... | |
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