Volume 2

A treatise on the diseases of children, with directions for the management of infants from the birth / [Michael Underwood].

  • Underwood, Michael, 1736-1820.
Date:
1805
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Credit: A treatise on the diseases of children, with directions for the management of infants from the birth / [Michael Underwood]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    proved an effectual prophylactic, but to have alfo fucceeded even where evident fymptoms of infection had taken place :* though fuch teftimony, l am forry to add, is much weakened by many later experi- ments. For the fake of fuch readers as may not have opportunity for reading many different publications, it may not be fu- perfluous to l'ubjoin the judicious direc- tions of the faculty in Paris, fubmitted to the Committee of public inftrudtion, which will bring the whole of the indi- cations into view. Let the wound and the furrounding parts be well waflied with lukewarm water, to take off the flaver as much as poffible. Let the wounded flefh be then inflantly cut out with a fharp inftrument, or cau- terifed with hot iron, or with fpirit of nitre. * See Iltjloire et Memoires de la Societe royale de Mede- cine Annee 1783. 2de fartie.—Tissot. Dr. Layard, &c. or