Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-11-04
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OtiuCIdi CuiRcTS Is, as It's name In0i
Gates. that branch of medical science
which treats abont the diseases peculiar
| TO the oriices of the body IN general.
However its scope OF teaching embraces
mainly the operations about the lover
part OF the bowels; the bladder and its
outlet; the womb Including oyaries.
This science which may more properly
{ DC called an art is of quite recent orr
gin. Its father or chief exponent and
prOmulgator. DIR. E. II. Pratt of Chica
go, was the first to point out to the
medical fraternity the relation that ex
lists between the oriices of the body and
mans general organism. Il has since
been recognized as a fact, that per-
son with defective Oritices must as a
| consequence be of defective health. 1t
may be his liDs Of his mouth; his nos.
trils. the eyes and ears. the lowe- out.
lets OF the bowels, bladder or the womb
II not in good healthy condition will
Influence unfavorably the health of
Such person somewhere in his or her
makeup. This is particularly true of
the outlets that are guarded by the
sympathetic nerve. The nerve that
presides over the circulation. respira-
ton, digestion, nutrition, blood max
ing. etc. 1t may be the haemorrhoidal
tumor, the rectal catarrh or assure, the
ulcer on the womb or the structure that
oHends 1t. Either OF the above will act
as source Of irritation to the nerve
presiding oyer the injured locality.
Ihls is the unconscious and inyolun-
tary nerve. 1t never sleeps; it knows
no rest. From the dawn of the birth
until the last spark of life is extin-
guished this nerve IS always watchtul:
always on guard looking after the in
dividual's welfare. A man racked with
pain or mental agony may go to sleep
under the influence of drugs and forget
for time his suffering. The irritated
sympathetic nerve will feel IN its own
way that it is offended and irritated-
irritated every minute and every hour
of the day and night without cessation
and in the course of time will resent
the otfense in one or in many ways
peculiar to its own, either by altering
the function of an organ sometimes
distant from the point of injury or Dy
abolishing it altogether. Thus it may
cut Off part OF the usual circulation
In the extremItieS, or in the brain .caus
ing cold hands and feet ;dullness of mind.
gloomy mood; melancholy disposition
a nf
and numerous; sometimes so severe as
to abolish some faculties OF the mind.
What else it may de-? By altering the
circulation and nutrition in the stom
ach and lungs 1T may produce shortness
OF breath, smOtheriDg palpitation of
the heart, falnting spells and variety
of dyspeptic symptoms. Those who
have read Physiology even in a cursory
way will readily understand how alter
ing the circulation in an organ will al
ter its function. This IS true of the
brain also. Knowing this, who will
wonder that liberated lower orifices
through the irritation of the sympathet-
ic nerve will SO affect the function of
BRAIN as to produce partial insanity.
This accounts why confirmed dyspep.
tics become melancholy and may final
~ acquire suicidal mama.
Ihave noticed Of late that taking a
hint from Prof. Pratt's teachings and
acting IN the line of his theory some
euterprising doctors" have produced
and advertised for sale instruments for
the purpose of stretching orifices of the
body, claiming extraordinary cures for
a multitude OF the ills in the body.
While their claims are out of proper
ton to the possibility of the result, it
Is nevertheless true that q thorough
stretching will arouse the sympathetic
nerves to their activity, open up the ar
teriols and flush the capilaries smallest
blood vessels) in all the organs of the
body giving them new impetus, new
life. new activity whether in the brain
or in the lungs, liver. stomach or ex.
tremities. am thoroughly convinced
of the usefulness OF the Orificial surgery
whose province is to remove the source
o: irritation to the nutrient nerves
whether such irritation exists in tie
shape OF piles, assure, ulcers or contrac-
ton; which all are nothing else but q
drain on the nervous force so necessary
for mans sustenance and life. This
belief and conviction comes from being
an eye witness to q case of cOmnlete