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

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    times palled the appetite, and in many produced no fenfible change. But in many others it re- tarded the progrefs both of occult and ulce- rated cancers, leffcned the tumours, alleviated the pain, mended the diicharge, changing it from a thin, ichorous, and foetid condition, to a flate more refembling laudable pus, and difpoled the part to heal. Dr. Fothergill is of opinion, that much of the extract of hemlock has been made at a feafon be- fore the- plant had attained its full vigour. The proper time for collecting the hemlock, feems to be the exact period when the flowers fade, the rudiments of the feeds become obfcrvable, and the plant inclines to yellow. It has then had the full benefit of the fuminer heat; and the plants that grow in expofed places will generally be found more virole than thole that grow in the fhade. In refpect to the manner of preparing this extract, the lefs heat it undergoes the better. Therefore if a confiderable quantity of the dry powder of the plant, gathered at a proper fea- fon, is added, the lefs boiling will be neceffary, and the medicine will be more efficacious. But let the extract be prepared in what man- ner it may, provided it is made from the genuine plant, at a proper feafon, and is not deftroyed by