Cases of erysipelas successfully treated, chiefly by venesection / [Andrew Duncan].

  • Duncan, Andrew, Jun., 1773-1832
Date:
[1821]
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Credit: Cases of erysipelas successfully treated, chiefly by venesection / [Andrew Duncan]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CASES OF ERYSIPELAS SUCCESSFULLY TREATED, CHIEFLY BY VENESECTION. By ANDREW DUNCAN, Junior, M.D. 7R0FESS0R OF MATERIA MEDICA IN THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH. £From Edin. Medical & Surgical JournAB, Vol. XVII. p. £37.]] HHhe following series of cases, which occurred in the Clinical Wards of the Royal Infirmary during the present summer, appears to me to possess a degree of interest sufficient to justify their early publication. It seems calculated to remove a pre¬ judice, very generally entertained by the profession, respecting the medical treatment of the Rose. After the abundant expe¬ rience we have lately had of the safety and advantage of vene¬ section in many diseases in which it was formerly prohibited, especially in continued fever arising from contagion, in small¬ pox with typhoid fever, and scarlatina with malignant sore throat, the extension of the same powerful remedy to another febrile disease, with cutaneous inflammation, seemed to be na¬ turally suggested. Yet, so far as I know, it has not been brought so fully to the test of experiment as in the series of cases in which I employed it. During the spring and summer, erysipelas has occurred fre¬ quently, both in private practice and in the Hospital, not alto-