Thoughts on the effects of the application and abstraction of stimuli on the human body ; with a particular view to explain the nature and cure of typhus / by James Wood.

Date:
1793
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Credit: Thoughts on the effects of the application and abstraction of stimuli on the human body ; with a particular view to explain the nature and cure of typhus / by James Wood. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    can be applied with fuccefs in Typhus, and that the continued ufe of any of the ftimu- lants of the other claffes, cannot be defend- ed as a fafe practice ; at the fame time, it mutt be allowed, that an occajional ufe of them to preferve the living principle, until more healthy ftimulants can be employed, may be attended with the higheft advan- tage, when the irritability is fo much ex- hautted, and fuch extreme debility has ta- ken place, that only the moft powerful fti- mulants can have any effect; of thefe I am inclined to give the preference to the ftimu- lus of cantharides, applied in the form of plailters, to the external furface of different parts of the body ; the application of which alone, or fometimes preceded by the camphorated mixture taken internally, and alternately with the nitrous folution, I have i found to fucceed to my utmofl wifhes in cafes of the moft extreme debility; and I ufed