Treatise on acupuncturation, inoculation, diversion, and direct medical administration / by A.R. Brown ; vol. II.

  • Brown, A. R., active 19th century.
Date:
1869
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Credit: Treatise on acupuncturation, inoculation, diversion, and direct medical administration / by A.R. Brown ; vol. II. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    tion will be generally sufficiently attained by one very thorough application of the accupunture instrument armed with No. 1 or 2 fluids. The No. 3 fluid is not pustulating in its nature, only acting as a temporary, but thorough excitant of the skin, and producing ex- cellent constitutional results from the absorption that takes place. It appears from long experience, and very extensive and general experiment with the instrument, in a great variety of diseases and conditions, and especially^ when diseased action is of much magnitude, or in cases of extreme vital depression, the external appear- ances following the use of the instrument will be very limited; and under such circumstances it becomes ab- solutely required to re-apply the acupuncturator two, very seldom three times, in the first twenty-four hours in order to obtain a full crop of pustules on the skin, which result is necessary and may be generally re- garded as an omen of victory over the diseased action. We generally avoid applying the instrument over the superficial bones—to the face and joints. By carefully reading the cases of treatment recorded in their proper place, the reader will soon obtain suffi- cient knowledge to go on successfully in the general treatment of disease with the new method. A. R. BROWN, M. D.