Observations on a new and easy method of curing disorders, by factitious air, without the use of drugs. Also, an enquiry into the medical properties of positive and negative electricity / [Loftus Wood].

  • Wood, Loftus
Date:
1780
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Credit: Observations on a new and easy method of curing disorders, by factitious air, without the use of drugs. Also, an enquiry into the medical properties of positive and negative electricity / [Loftus Wood]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ » ] The following are a few of the nnmerotig cafes, in which fixed Air was employed as au internal medicine : . I Dr. Dobfotii of Liverpool, 'relates a cafe of ^nn Forbes^ who was extremely ill of the fmall-pox, of the confluent kind, the weather being exceeding hot; flie was treated in the common antiphlogiftic method with fo little fuccefs, that (he became intolerably ofFenfive, and had every fymptom of a fpeedy difiolution : The Salt of Tartar with the juice of lemon was given in the ftate of effcrvefcence every hour % in the fpace of one day the putrid ftench was diminifhed, and fhe perfectly recovered in a fliort time. Prince GaUkzin ordered this medicine for a woman of Breda, in Dutch Brabant, having a mofl: dangerous putrid fever, who on the ninth day was entirely covered with fpots of a red and livid colour, and nearly in the lafi: fiage of general putrefaction ; Ihe had cold fweats, and convulfions of the extremities : The bark, and other antifeptlc medicines were given without any fuccefs. The fixed Air was then admi- niftered in a decoCtion of the Peruvian Bark. In the fpace of three days, the bad lymptoms were