A letter to Sir Gilbert Blane, Bart. physician to the King, &c. &c. &c. from Sir Anthony Carlisle, surgeon extraordinary to His Majesty, &c. &c. 7c. On blisters, rubifacients and escharotics : giving an account of the employment of an instrument adapted to transmit a defined degree of heat, to effect those several purposes.

  • Carlisle, Anthony, Sir, 1768-1840.
Date:
1826
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Credit: A letter to Sir Gilbert Blane, Bart. physician to the King, &c. &c. &c. from Sir Anthony Carlisle, surgeon extraordinary to His Majesty, &c. &c. 7c. On blisters, rubifacients and escharotics : giving an account of the employment of an instrument adapted to transmit a defined degree of heat, to effect those several purposes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ 10] thus to induce sleep; and the same effect fol- lows extensive scalds,—sleep being the rest of the brain from it's labours, and the appointed time for the replenishment of it's vital powers. Hence by a happy constitution of our nature we can only endure a limited extent of bodily pain, without either the extinction of life, or such a reduction of consciousness, that the degree of suffering becomes manifestly diminished. Blisters and rubifacients are therefore potent means of revulsion in disorders of the san- guineous system, in local errors of the nerves, and in some vitiated states of the sensorium; and the more simple the mode of blistering, the more unmixed will be the effect. Pain is the signal of distress, conveyed by the nerves, the messengers of the mind, to the seat of consciousness; and the welfare of our bodies would be every moment insecure, but for it's ready warnings. The attention of the mind can only be occupied by one sensation at the same moment, and the weaker impressions give way to those of more intensity;—hence