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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1863 Excerpt: ... CHAPTER II. THE VARIOUS CAUSES OF CONSTIPATED BOWELS. The various causes which give rise to constipation of the bowels must ever demand serious consideration on the part of the physician. Success in medical treatment depends much upon the exercise of sound judgment in diagnosis. Constipation ought not to be considered as forming any exception to the rule. Constipation, however, is so common, so everyday a matter, that there exists an unfortunate tendency, even in the minds of many practitioners, to neglect that careful attention to the totality of circumstances characteristic of individual cases, which attention would infallibly be exerted in most other forms of disease. Human nature is generally apt to fall into habits of routine and want of caution, with consequent failure in due discrimination, where constant familiarity renders anything common. Action thus tends too much to the automatic. Constipation, otherwise than in an exceptional and occasional form, is not an immediately urgent or fatal, but only a very troublesome and intractable, affection; ergo, it is too often regarded with a feeling somewhat akin to contempt, the undermining effects upon the general health not being apprehended. Now, it is this undercurrent of thought, more or less passively and even unwittingly existent, which ought to be deprecated, for it undoubtedly tends to the overthrow of confidence in the professional adviser, and to drive invalids into objectional courses most mischievous to themselves, with the impatient remark, " I can treat my own bowels quite as well, if not better, than the doctor." The medical practitioner will be respected by his patients, and be successful in thwarting the designs of ignorant self-interest, in direct proportion to his condescension in searchi...
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