Drs. Bourneville and Bricon's Manual of hypodermic medication / [edited] by G. Archie Stockwell.

  • Bourneville, 1840-1909
Date:
1890
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Credit: Drs. Bourneville and Bricon's Manual of hypodermic medication / [edited] by G. Archie Stockwell. 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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    INTRODUCTION. HISTORY, VALUE AND METHODS. The introduction of a needle into the body as a therapeutic measure, has been in vogue for centuries in the Orient, and was introduced into Great Britain and Europe in 1670, though it met with little favor until 1810, when Berloz revamped the procedure. Intra- venous injections generally obtained in the 17th century, but whether a hollow needle bearing medicaments was ever employed for remedial purposes, is questionable. Endermic medication, however, was taught by Lam- bert; Inoculation of Remedies, by Lafargue, in the early part of the present century; and Valleix at- tempted the introduction of medicines into the cellular tissue by acupuncture. For the strictly hypodermic method, however, aside from the physiological experiments of Magendie and others, we are indebted to Doctor Alexander Wood, of Edinburgh, Scotland, who employed mor- phia solutions subcutaneously for the relief of neural- gia as far back as 1843, though such procedure attrac- ted little attention until about 1855. Priority has been claimed for Langenbeck, Rynd, Kurzak, J. Taylor, and others, but has never been satisfactorily substan- tiated. Rynd wrote of it in 1845, tiut there is little doubt his information was derived from Dr. Wood. No small portion of our present knowledge, more- over, is due to Mr. Charles Hunter and Doctor An-