A series of lectures on the most approved principles and practice of modern surgery; principally derived from the lectures delivered by Astley Cooper ... at the united hospitals of Guy and St. Thomas, and in which will be found some of the opinions of the most celebrated surgeons, from the time of Hunter, to the present moment ; interspersed with numerous cases / By Charles Williams Jones.

  • Jones, Charles Williams.
Date:
1821
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Credit: A series of lectures on the most approved principles and practice of modern surgery; principally derived from the lectures delivered by Astley Cooper ... at the united hospitals of Guy and St. Thomas, and in which will be found some of the opinions of the most celebrated surgeons, from the time of Hunter, to the present moment ; interspersed with numerous cases / By Charles Williams Jones. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    quantities of diluent drinks, bladders of warm water applied to the extremities, and lastly antimonials ; they relieve the oppres- sive dryness of the skin, and tend to lessen the increased action of the affected part. The remedies just mentioned are intended for acute inflam- mation. Chronic inflammation requires somewhat of a different treatment; when an organ has laboured long under an inflam- mation, so as to threaten its entire derangement or dissolu- tion, the hydrarg. muriat. with or without the Peruvian bark, ac- cording as circumstances may direct, which may or may not favour the exhibition of the latter medicine, has been found beneficial and serviceable to a great degree. Case.—A striking instance of this is recollected, which occurred in Guy’s hospital, in the case of a woman who had a chronic inflammation of the eyes, to such an extent as to have produced an opacity of the cornea: the common remedies wrere persisted in, but in vain ; when, after taking the above medi- cine, the opacity of the cornea began gradually to diminish, and in a few days the inflammation subsided. The mercurial, in this instance, was combined w ith a decoction of sarsaparilla. In tabes mesenterica, chronic affections, and in scrophula, it answers very well, provided it does not act on the system as ft mercurial. Some of the remedies for topical inflammation have been be- fore alluded to, as cupping, leeches, &c.; but it will be necessary to observe, that there are other remedies equally proper; these are cold applications, which are of an astringent or sedative nature, and which, by abstracting heat, lessen the action of the blood vessels, and act as powerful agents on the nervous system; but there are certain limitations to be observed with respect to their use; it w'ould be highly improper to have re- course to them too frequently, or in too violent a degree, as instances have been known, when so applied, they have pro- duced the worst consequences, by freezing the parts, and con- sequently effecting a morbid action, owing to a lax and torpid circulation. Mr. Samuel Sharp has related a case of this kind, when, from ice being applied to the groin in a strangulated hernia, such a morbid state was induced a* to occasion the