Giuseppe Maria Stilon
Published: 2013-09
Total Pages: 30
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1848 edition. Excerpt: ...extremities, nor was the trunk altogether spared; in grave cases, which soon terminated in death, the cramps accompanied the alvine evacuations; however, there were some cases in which very violent and acute cramps took place together with the evacuations, and yet the patients recovered. Among the causes which produced cramps, may be reckoned the irregular action of the nervous centres--some gastro-enteric irritation, or some particular pathological state of the disordered intestines; the irregular innervation appeared to be occasioned, by the diminished nutrition of the great sympathetic, or by some irritation in that nerve, which disturbing its organic motion, rendered it incapable of exercising its functions properly. The irritation of the stomach, and bowels, may have been caused by some irritating stimulant, which operating on them, disturbed their action. To prove that an irregular innervation, and intestinal affections usually produce cramps, the following instances may be adduced. When sufficient blood is taken from an individual to produce syncope, it is observed that if the person be placed vertically, cramps immediately take place with more or less violence, according to his particular susceptibility. A patient of mine being troubled by a taenia, I, in order to deliver him from so troublesome an inmate, prescribed for him a decoction of the root of the pomegranate; after he had taken it for some days, he obtained from it the relief which I had expected; but wishing to ascertain his case more perfectly, I recommended him to use the same decoction a few days longer, but my prescription could not be employed, for whenever he drank it, he was immediately attacked with violent cramps in the extremities. A few years ago I prescribed...