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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    a consequent diminution of cuticular discharge. The urinary apparatus becomes spasmodically affected from sympathy, and this, added to an increased mo- mentum given to the organ by means of the sup- pressed discharge of the skin, causes frequent eva- cuations. In warm weather, on the contrary, the pores are open, the surface is moist, and there not only is not the same quantity of fluid determined to the bladder, but from the relaxed state of that organ there is not the same urgent necessity to evacuate. These are the general effects of heat and cold of which hundreds of examples might be cited. IT am aware, that if a part be submitted to the actual cautery it will certainly and permanently con- tract. Here the magnitude of the part will neces- sarily be lessened; structure and actual substance will be destroyed; but this is not the natural or ordinary effect of heat, and cannot fairly be urged in favour of the theory, that heat is the cause of con- traction. ‘ A somewhat analogous result to that from the actual cautery may be produced by exposure to the extreme of cold—if a limb be submitted to the action of intense cold during a certain time, collapse of its vessels will take place, and a diminution or total ob- struction in the circulation will next follow; and if this be continued for a still longer period, the atony of the vessels will become so great that blood can never again be solicited to the surface; and the c 2