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

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.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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$fractures in their immediate neighbourhood. The friction was of the dry kind, the rubber- nurse using finely-powdered starch, doubtless to facilitate her manual operations. Appropriate medicines, were also given, if the patient suffered from chronic rheumatism, or was recovering from fever. Of late years, the method of friction has not been recommended by the whole of the staff of the Radcliffe Infirmary; and the services of the nurse have been so little employed, that from 60/. a-year, they have sunk below 77., being paid six- pence per hour for her occupation. From this establishment, patients are often sent, at the expense of the charity, to the Warneford Hospi- tal, Leamington, and the Margate Infirmary, to derive benefit from the baths, and the effects of the air on the skin. From these facts it will clearly appear, that much more than could be accomplished by dry friction, at the Radcliffe Hospital, has been effected at the Clerkenwell Infirmary, by restoring the skin to a healthy con- dition, with the hard ointment. It is not necessary to say another word, at present, excepting that an impression is very likely to prevail, that a greasy ointment is calcu- lated to obstruct and clog the cutaneous surface, i$