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.

  • Reece, Richard, 1775-1831.
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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    and if the patient be of-a plethoric habit of body, or the arm much inflamed, six or eight ounces of blood should be taken from the arm. If these means should fail of dispersing it, an incision should be made into the part, nearly to the bone, which will effectually prevent suppuration, and thus preserve the nail and the bone. ' When an effusion of serum has taken place, it should be let out as soon as possible, to prevent it in- creasing the internal mischief, particularly if deep- seated. A poultice may then be applied, which, with the occasional use of a little brandy, will effect a cure. But so many untoward circumstances happen in those cases, such as caries of the bone, the formation*of fungus under the nail, &c. that it will always- be ad- visable to apply to an experienced surgeon, whose timely assistance will not only prevent much mischief, 'bfit save the finp-er. O OF WORMS. The species of worms that are most prevalent in ithe human body are three, viz. ascarides, or small iround and short worms, which chiefly occupy the ltowci intestine; the teres, or round and long- worms*, which are generally seated in the small intestines and stomach; and the tcenia or tape-worm, which for the i nost part possesses the whole tract of the intestinal canal. Symptoms.— The symptoms denoting the existence * The round long worm being generally considered to be of the same nature as the earth-worm, I shall briefly notice in t/hat their difference consists. On examining their outward ppenrance with attention, the human worm will be found