Volume 2

A practical treatise on various diseases of the abdominal viscera ... / [Christopher Robert Pemberton].

  • Pemberton, Christopher Robert, 1765-1822.
Date:
1807
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A practical treatise on various diseases of the abdominal viscera ... / [Christopher Robert Pemberton]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [6] each, if the strength of the patient 1s at all able to support it.* If it should be un- equivocally manifest at any one of these bleedings, that the strength of the patient is inadequate to the loss of sixteen ounces, a less quantity may be taken away, and we may resort, at the same time, to the topical application of leeches and blisters. I prefer delaying the use of the blister till the constitutional effects occasioned by the local inflammation are partly removed by the general bleeding, and till the dis- order is thus reduced to a state more nearly approaching to a simple topical affection. By proceeding thus, the double advantage will be obtained of applying the topical remedies at a period, when their influence will be exerted with the greatest effect, and the practitioner more- over will not be deprived of the only means of ascertaining the variations of the * Interest enim (in venaesectione) non que ztas sit, neque quid in corpore intus geratur, sed que vires sint, i Celsus,