Modern improvements in the practice of surgery / by Henry Manning, M. D. author of the Treatise on the diseases of women.

  • Manning, Henry, M.D.
Date:
1780
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    complaints. In young children, where it cannot be given as a febrifuge in the ufual way, it has of late years been applied externally with great fuccels, by means of quilted waiftcoats. Blisters. THOUGH blifters feem to have been known in the earlieft ages of phyfic, and they are now almolt univerfally employed, yet the theory of their adtion, as well as the mode of their operation, remains a fubject of con- troverfy. Hence different opinions have been entertained concerning the difeafes in which they are indicated, the time of their appli- cation, and the parts to which they ought to be applied. Befides the various cafes in which they were formerly ufed, modern prac- tice has afcertained their utility in fpafmodic diforders, in inflammations of the ftomach, in- teftines, and other parts i as alio in coughs, attended with fever, pain in the fide, and a pituitous infarction of the lungs. A blifter ap- plied to the os facrum, has likewife been found to remove incontinence of urine. Carrot