Observations on the principal medical institutions and practice of France, Italy, and Germany : with notices of the universities, and cases from hospital practice : to which is added an appendix, on animal magnetism and homoeopathy / by Edwin Lee.

Date:
1835
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    inflammatory symptoms by which they show themselves are but the effects of the contact of the miasm on the nervous centres and principal organs; especially on the digestive passages, parts which we have seen in all cases of poisoning where a history of the case preceded, almost constantly the first to feel the effects of different poisons, in whatever manner introduced into the system. * An apprehension of exciting inflammation in the alimentary canal still, however, acts as a bug- bear in preventing the employment of many remedies fi'om which advantage is daily derived in England. The same fear has probably given rise to the plan followed in many cases, of intro- ducing medicines by an abraded or blistered sur- face on the skin, or what is termed the methode endermique. It is obvious that this method is only applicable when the substances to be intro- duced are small in quantity, or exist in the con- centrated state, as quinine, strychnine, digitalis, the salts of morphia, &c. Medicines so adminis- tered are said to be as efficacious as when taken into the stomach ; and there is no doubt the plan might be advantageously adopted in cases where, from irritability of this viscus, substances intro- duced by the mouth are with difficulty re- tained. The diffusion of Broussaian principles has pro- duced one beneficial effect, in substituting for the comparatively inert measures formerly eni- * Elemens de Pathologic. Roche et Sanson. C 2