Medical remarks on natural, spontaneous and artificial evacuation ... / [John Anderson].

  • Anderson, John, approximately 1730-1804.
Date:
1787
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    than the leeches could fuck. Cupping-glaffes not only draw off blood, but, with it, the local venom of animals and infefts ; and relieve a corrupted or gangrened part after a wound or inflammation. They relieve efflorefcences, or defedations of the face, from a hot conftltu- tion, by deriving the blood from the part, and confequently the heat, and allowing a due motion, that prefervative of the fluids againft ftagnation and putrefaction. For prolapfus uteri, Boyle fpeaks highly of the utility of a large cupping-glafs applied to the navel; but not to {lay on above a quarter of an hour, left it injure the part. When a patient cannot fafely fuftain the lofs of any blood, cupping is ufed without fcarification. i The practice of cupping was much In ufe amongil the Egyptians. From its‘ effeCts it may be faid to be the reftorer of defective life and nutrition. Upon the principle of revulfion, the vena faphena in the foot Is opened, and fometimes has the happy effeCt of relieving fupprefled menfes, head-ach, tooth-ach, &c. O 7. ■ For