The medical guide, for the use of the clergy, heads of families, and practitioners in medicine and surgery : comprising a practical dispensatory and treatise on the symptoms, causes, prevention, and cure of the diseases incident to the human frame ; with the latest discoveries in medicine / by Richard Reece, M.D.

  • Richard Reece
Date:
1812
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Credit: The medical guide, for the use of the clergy, heads of families, and practitioners in medicine and surgery : comprising a practical dispensatory and treatise on the symptoms, causes, prevention, and cure of the diseases incident to the human frame ; with the latest discoveries in medicine / by Richard Reece, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    jellies, with a small portion of meat; a little good Port or white wine may also be allowed, but water should be adopted in lieu of malt liquor : and if the complaint be attended with much irritation or pain on making water, it will be advisable to avoid pepper and much salt, but not otherwise. Warm diluent liquors, as tea and coffee, and the use of spirituous liquors, are very improper, and will certainly counteract the effects of medicine. OF WHITE SWELLING. This disease is the consequence of a tender structure or debility of the absorbent vessels of the ligaments of the joints, which constitutes what is termed scrofula. (See Scrofula, page 405.) It is often brought on by accidents, as bruises and strains, and sometimes by frequent attacks of rheumatism. Ehe knee, ancle, and elbow joints, are generally the seats of this disease. The scrofulous white swelling begins with acute pain . in the interior part of the joint, which is soonei 01 latei succeeded by a gradual enlargement of the ends Oi the bones forming the joint, with a^d is tension of the veins of the skin surrounding it. Treatment.—The object of topical management is to prevent the formation of matter, by the application of leeches or cupping, which should be repeated every, or every other, day, according to the urgency of the case; the whole joint should then be kept con- tinually wet and cool with the following lotion, by means of folds of old linen : * • \ Take of crude sal ammoniac, half an ounce ; dissolve in spring water, ' pne pint and half; then add vinegar, half a pint.
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