A treatise on the utility of sangui-suction, or, : Leech bleeding, in the treatment of a great variety of diseases : including the opinions of eminent practitioners, ancient and modern : with instructions for the process of leeching, and an appendix, delineating the characteristic distinction of true leeches : with directions for their management and preservation / by Rees Price.

  • Price, Rees.
Date:
1822
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Credit: A treatise on the utility of sangui-suction, or, : Leech bleeding, in the treatment of a great variety of diseases : including the opinions of eminent practitioners, ancient and modern : with instructions for the process of leeching, and an appendix, delineating the characteristic distinction of true leeches : with directions for their management and preservation / by Rees Price. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    evacuation followed, that, after ten hours, the pain went away. This remedy I have happily experi- mented many times in gouts of the hand, foot, and knee, after the body had been well purged. Case 2.— A man of a melancholic habit of body was troubled with an old sciatica, whom the physicians had tormented with frequent bleeding, so often as the pain came. He being thus much weakened, instead of blood - letting, I caused leeches to be applied to the haemorrhoid veins; which being used for a year together, he was per- fectly cured. By this means, the fluxion which fell from the hip was derived to his fundament. And, indeed, opening the haemorrhoid veins pre- serves from sciatica. And as retention of the menses oftentimes causes it, according to Hippo- crates, Epidem, lib. v. numb. 33, where he relates, that Polemarchus's wife, upon the stoppage of the menses, was troubled with sciatica, so the pro- voking of them cures the said disease also. It must, however, be observed, that when leeches are used in this manner, they should be applied close to the margin of the anus. Gout.—Amidst the conflict of opinions of the present day, with respect to the nature and the best method of treating gout, I will briefly observe, that I have always found the symptoms, in its