Observations and cases relative to dislocations of the shoulder joint : with a variety of methods for reduction, and an appendix, containing, as notes, extracts from various writers on surgery, &c interspersed with comments on medical and surgical cases; and also plates with explanatory tables, shewing a variety of instruments, machinery, &c for surgical purposes / by R. Roberts.

  • Roberts, Robert.
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1829
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Credit: Observations and cases relative to dislocations of the shoulder joint : with a variety of methods for reduction, and an appendix, containing, as notes, extracts from various writers on surgery, &c interspersed with comments on medical and surgical cases; and also plates with explanatory tables, shewing a variety of instruments, machinery, &c for surgical purposes / by R. Roberts. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    158* Another of the modern efforts was the inhaling of Vitriolic Alther vapour in affections of the chest. Dr. Haygarth, when speaking of its use, and interrogated, admitted, that it had been used, and condemned as producing Hse- moptoe:—on primk facie evidence a probable result! fPage 110.; Quart. Rev. vol.4, p. 197. Fever. Of a hundred and sixty admissions into Laennec's wards during the quarter, eighty-three were acute diseases, and sixty-seven chronic; the mortality was twenty-nine, or rather less than a fifth part. Of twenty-three Cases of severe Fever there were only two deaths, though the treatment was Hippocratic, ox expectante. The head was the organ that suffered most in this quarter. Laennec did not confine the fever Patients to so rigid a diet, or rather abstinence, as is gefierally done in such cases. He thinks, that abstemiousness, too long protracted, injures the tone of the stomach, and is one great cause of the inconvenience felt by convalescents when they begin to take nourishing diet. M. Laennec rarely applied leeches, and only when there was acute local pain, or appearance of congestion about the head. He seldom applied blisters, or other counter'irritants, and rarely prescribed