Author: Roderick Macleod

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-05-30

Total Pages: 594

ISBN-13: 9780282158699

Excerpt from The London Medical and Physical Journal, 1827, Vol. 57 The treatment best suited to this formidable affection, (which, if adopted in time, seldom fails to arrest its progress) is the one which has been recommended by Mr. Copland Hutchison, in a paper published in the medico-chirurgical Transactions; to the real merits of which I can bear most ample and satisfactory testimony. This treatment consists in making very free longitudinal incisions, if possible before suppuration has taken place, through the swollen inflamed integuments down to the fascia or muscles. The vessels of the skin should be allowed to bleed freely, and even encou raged by warm fomentations; the limb should then be enve loped in a warm bread-and-water poultice. A large dose of calomel, antimony, and Opium, should be administered; and after some hours the patient should be freely purged with senna and salts, or some other active aperient. If the inci sions be made sufficiently large and deep, the relief is very speedy, and it is seldom requisite to repeat them. In a few hours I have witnessed the subsidence of tension and pain, the nervous system tranquillised, and the secretions restored. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.