Constipation and Intestinal Obstruction
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This volume forms a very complete and interesting treatise on its subject. After passing in review the anatomy and phj'siology of the bowel, and particularly of the rectum, the aetiology of constipation is fully considered ; and then, with equal fullness, its symptoms and diagnosis. Considerably more than half the book is devoted to treatment, described under the heads of educational ; psychic ; treatment by exercise and bodily movements ; by hydrotherapy, internal and external ; by massage and by mechanical vibration; by electricity and by drugs, the author preferring to rely, as little
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