On the local application of a benumbing or congealing temperature, in inflammatory, painful, & malignant diseases / by James Arnott, M.D.

  • Arnott, James, 1794-1885.
Date:
1852
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Credit: On the local application of a benumbing or congealing temperature, in inflammatory, painful, & malignant diseases / by James Arnott, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    8. Of about thirty cases of headach, treated at the Brighton Dispensary by congelation, rarely exceeding a minute in dura- tion, more than nine tenths were permanently cured, and several by one application. 9. Nine consecutive cases of lumbago, at the Brighton Dis- pensary, and some of them of a very acute character, were cured by one or, at most, two congelations. 10. In the case of an elderly woman, a frigorific mixture was kept, by means of a flat sponge, for three minutes, over an impetiginous eruption on the leg, attended with a distressing sense of itching that prevented sleep. The itching was at once relieved, and the eruption soon disappeared. This case is noticed chiefly on account of its having been the first in which congelation was employed. 11. An engraver, the father of a numerous family dependent on his exertions, had been prevented from working at his trade for a period of six months by a rheumatic afiection of his right arm, for which he had in vain used most of the common remedies. Two applications of a congealing temperature, of about five minutes each, enabled him to resume his occupation. 12. A boy, exposed from the nature of his employment in the country to long-continued wet, had severe deep-seated pain in one of his thighs, which for more than a twelvemonth had pre- vented his walking without the assistance of crutches. Two extensive congelations of the usual duration, entirely relieved the pain, and restored the use of his limb. 13. An old soldier, who ascribed the origin of his complaint to exposure to wet more than twenty years before, had suflEered much from rheumatic gout. A very painful attack of his wrist was immediately and completely relieved by two congelations ; the first of five, the second of two minutes' continuance. 14. A gentleman who had been suflFering for three weeks, from an acutely inflamed eye, and who had been under the usual treatment, without benefit, had a mixture of ice and salt applied over the closed eyelids for about ten minutes; the pe- riod being longer than usual on account of the great heat and