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Title: A domestic guide to medicine : by which individuals, both male and female, are enabled to treat their own complaints on a safe and easy principle : to this is prefixed a few remarks on the universal domestic medicine of the author (formerly the improved Hygeian pills) showing that this medicine is founded on the prevailing doctrines of the Brit. College of Physicians and Surgeons, London
Year: 1835 (1830s)
Authors: Ralph, Joseph
Subjects: Medicine
Publisher: New York : (s.n.)
Contributing Library: U.S. National Library of Medicine
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iver which secretes, and the gall-duct, which conveys the bile intothe small intestines; these are the seat of bilious diseases, &c. 18 Plate II. shows a portion of the small intestines into which thebile and other secretions are conveyed for the purpose of completingthe digestive process. It is while in these intestines that the foodimparts its nourishment to the body; but if the process of digestionis imperfect, or deranged, then, instead of bland and proper nutri-ment, a mass of crude impurities and vitiated humors is supplied.Further, these intestines are seen to abound with absorbent tubescalled lacteal vessels, (A,) which take up such vitiated fluids andconvey them through the mesenteric glands (B,) into the blood andcirculating system. There is also seen a large supply of blood-vessels, (C,) of which the use will presently be shown, when speak-ing of the operation of the pills in purifying the blood, and carryingoff its humors. 17 Plate 2. A PORTION OF THE SMALL INTESTINES.
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A. Lacteal vessels, having mouths by which thev absorb the vitiated matterof corrupt and undigested food. B. Mesenteric glands. C. Large blood-vessels. 18 Plate III. represents the large intestine or colon ; from its figureand dimensions some idea may be formed of the quantity of putridrefuse of undigested food which is apt to be accumulated therein. Itbegins on the lower part of the right side of the bowels, and passingupward, crosses under the stomach, and then passes downward onthe leftside. This explanation of its direction will serve to accountfor many of those pains and uneasy feelings which are frequentlythe subject of complaint, but which are not always suspected to arisefrom a disordered state of this intestine. It is also to be observedthat the colon is divided into little cells, or pouches, by a number ofbands which run across it, (A). It is in these cells that the ill-di.gested food accumulates, a;.d from which it can not be expelled bythe ordinary purgatives in use. 19 Pl

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