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Distend and contract an organ for a short time two or three times a day, and it will gain in strength from the exercise.
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M.M. Distend the part gradually by catgut bougies, which by their compression will at the same time diminish the thickness of the membrane, or by bougies of elastic gum, or of horn boiled soft.
Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766
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Distend the stricture gradually by a sponge-tent fastened to the end of whale-bone, or by a plug of wax, or a spermaceti candle, about two inches long; which might be introduced, and left there with a string only fixed to it to hang out of the mouth, to keep it in its place, and to retract it by occasionally; for which purpose the string must be put through a catheter or hollow probang, when it is to be retracted.
Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766
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