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Title: Practical hydropathy, including plans of baths and remarks on diet, clothing and habits of life..
Year: 1864 (1860s)
Authors: Smedley, John
Subjects: Hydrotherapy Baths Hot water
Publisher: London : J. Caudwell
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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nd of course give a more correctidea of the blood-vessels. I have inserted these the full size, for the purpose ofshowing the nature and cause of piles, a complaint so very common from drink-ing ardent spirits and other alcoholic beverages, from sedentary habits with theabstemious, and the want of cold water application in the form of sitz baths.The blood veins are shown gorged and enlarged from want of muscular powerin the vein to propel the blood, causing distension, and eventually permanentenlargement ana abscess. Engraving IV.—The bowel being partially laid open and stripped of themucous membrane, enlarged and tortuous veins are shown, terminating in thehaemorrhoids (piles), which are seen to hang below the sphincter, a, thecut edges of the bowel at the upper end of the division; bt the sphincter ; c,haemorrhoids, where cut through; d, the veins outside the gut; <?, the veinswithin, seen to be large and tortuous; /, piles formed by the congested blood-vessels being distended.
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338 HANDBOOK OF HYDROPATHY. Peeiton-ETJM.—(From the Greek, T extend round.) A strong simple mem-brane, by which all the viscera of the abdomen are surrounded. It has anexceedingly smooth, exhaling, and moist internal surface. Outwardly it iseverywhere surrounded by cellular substance, which, towards the kidneys, isvery loose and very fat, but is very short at the lower tendon of the transversemuscles. It begins from the diaphragm, which it completely lines; and at thelast fleshy fibres of the ribs, and the external lumbar fibres, it completes theseptum, in conjunction with the pleura, with which it is continuous through thevarious intervals of the diaphragm. Posteriorly, it descends before the kidneys ;anteriorly, behind the abdominal muscles. It dips into the pelvis from thebones of the pubes, passes over the bladder, and descends behind; and beingagain carried Dackwards at the entrance of the ureters, in two lunar folds, itrejoins unon the intestinum rectum that part of itself whi

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