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On the use of the moxa, as a therapeutical agent / by Baron D. J. Larrey ; Translated from the French, with notes, and an introduction containing a history of the substance, by Robley Dunglison.

  • Larrey, D. J. (Dominique Jean), baron, 1766-1842.
Date:
1822
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Credit: On the use of the moxa, as a therapeutical agent / by Baron D. J. Larrey ; Translated from the French, with notes, and an introduction containing a history of the substance, by Robley Dunglison. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    intense; the limb may even undergo a momenta- neous shortening, owing to the wearing away, from the caries, of the head of the femur, or to the sudden passage, from the articular cavity, of the fluid contained therein: this characterizes the second period. This phenomenon, when it has taken place, has given rise to the belief of a spontaneous luxation; but in examining atten- tively, the rectitude and conformation of the member, we do not find any signs, which unequivocally characterize this luxation: and I repeat, that, unless from a concomitant mecha- nical cause, the head of the femur, already moreover reduced by the caries, does not luxate. I have never seen a single example of it, although I have had occasion to open the bodies of a great number of persons, who have died from the effects of femoro-coxalgia. The third period is characterized by the pro- gress of the caries, the developement of the abscess externally, in points more or less distant from the seat of the disease, as well as by a febrile and cachectic state of the system. These abscesses are nearly circumscribed, and present an uniform fluctuation in every part of their surface, without local pain, or change of color in the skin; they increase slowly and insensibly, and when they have arrived at their last stage, the parietes become thin, and at last open spon-