Purging
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purging · hellebore purge · hypercatharsis · purge
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Aphorisms
A named therapeutic evacuation procedure discussed with timing, diagnostic, and risk rules
Pains of the eyes are removed by drinking pure wine, or the bath, or a fomentation, or venesection, or purging.
When the dejections are allowed to stand and not shaken, and a sediment is formed like scrapings (of the bowels), in such a case it is proper to purge the bowels;
In hypercatharsis, of old persons, hiccup supervening is not a good symptom.
De diaeta acutorum
The therapeutic evacuation of the body via drugs (notably hellebore), governed by strict rules about timing and patient suitability.
When the hypochondria are inflamed without suppression of the breath, there are tensions of the diaphragm, or stoppages of the breath, of dry orthopnoea, in those in whom there is no pus beneath, but these affections arise from a suppression of the breath—and especially severe pains of the liver, and heavy distress of the spleen, and other inflammations and severe pains above the diaphragm, and co …
But if it seem good to purge, purge upward safely with hellebore;
purge none of such persons;