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

  • Anderson, John, approximately 1730-1804.
Date:
1787
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    In petechial fevers, veficatories muft not be applied too foon; for, by leffening the quantity of the ferofity of the blood and lymph, the eruption of the puftules is prevented. Veficatories, on the infide of hydropical fwelled legs, promote a great difcharg’S of ferofity; but a gangrene is, in general, the confequcnce. Although blifters attenuate and reduce the inflammatory, they do not increafe the putrid diathefis of the blood ^ as appears by the writings of fome of our moft fagacious obfervers; fuch as Whytt, Huxham, Lind, Fothergill, &c- They are found to have great good effe£l even in that moft malignant of all febrile dif- eafes, the plague. Mercurialis was the firft who introduced blifters in that formidable difeafe. Saxonia and others have fince confirmed his prailice.— Aretseus was the fiirft who ufed blifters in epi- lepfy, gout, lethargy, apoplexy, foul erup¬ tions on the fkin, and fome other chronic diforders. When a blifter is intended to*give ftimulus only, it is removed fo foon as the part becomes rubified ; and is renewed alternately utcunque opus