On a new and successful treatment for febrile and other diseases, through the medium of the cutaneous surface : illustrated with cases / by William Taylor.

  • Taylor, William, active 1850.
Date:
1850
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Credit: On a new and successful treatment for febrile and other diseases, through the medium of the cutaneous surface : illustrated with cases / by William Taylor. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the ointment over the region of the spine, this process being occasionally aided by the stimulus of a mustard poultice. Again, if large accumulations of water are removable from the cavities of the abdomen and the chest, by frictions with the hard ointment, it is not astonishing that fluid has been dispersed from the cerebral ventricles in children by the same means. This beneficial effect has certainly been obtained in numerous cases by this treat- ment, assisted by measures calculated to regulate the secretions of the liver and kidneys. The little patients had, in several instances, been pronounced incurable by the first authorities, the action of the skin not having previously been aroused by direct measures. It is probable, that in considering the state- ments made in this little work, the profession may regard its contents as being, for the most part, an advocacy of mere adeps for the cure of febrile inflammations. The impression would be erro- neous, The advocacy is really that of a treat- ment, not exactly by old and well-known means, but by an application which an experience of several years' duration has shown to be pecu- liarly adapted to alter the morbid action of the