A treatise on a modified application of moxa, in the treatment of stiff and contracted joints: and also in chronic rheumatism, rheumatic gout, lumbago, sciatica, indolent tumours ... illustrated by cases and plates, with observations on the different remedies hitherto employed in the treatment of diseased joints; and an investigation into the nature, causes, and treatment of spinal diseases / [J.T. Boyle].

  • Boyle, J. T. (James T.)
Date:
1826
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Credit: A treatise on a modified application of moxa, in the treatment of stiff and contracted joints: and also in chronic rheumatism, rheumatic gout, lumbago, sciatica, indolent tumours ... illustrated by cases and plates, with observations on the different remedies hitherto employed in the treatment of diseased joints; and an investigation into the nature, causes, and treatment of spinal diseases / [J.T. Boyle]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    to express the action of intense heat; for the Por- tuguese, who were witness in China to this opera- tion, observed, that the people burned themselves with a match. It may be also observed, that the Arabic uw is of the same sound as the short o in English ; hence, whether written muhksa, or moksa, it is still the same term moza, in pursuit of whose origin I have trespassed so long upon the reader's attention.