On indigestion and costiveness : with hints to both sexes on the important, safe, and efficacious means of relieving diseases of the digestive organs by lavements: including directions for the selection and use of apparatuses for their administration: and the best medicinal preparations for intestinal and other injections. To which is added, observations on the mode of preserving health and prolonging life, by air, exercise, sleep, clothing, etc. Including many useful family prescriptions. The whole illustrated by coloured engravings / By Edward Jukes, Surgeon, inventor of the stomach-pump.
A popular medical treatise of 1831 by London surgeon Edward Jukes, inventor of the stomach-pump, advising lay readers of both sexes on indigestion, costiveness and enema apparatus, published by Effingham Wilson. Hand-coloured engravings open the trunk to show heart, lungs, liver and coiled intestines, alongside wood engravings of syringes, injection chairs and a vapour-bath room with lettered keys.
