Observations (from experience) on the aid obtained, in various diseases, (particularly those incidental to tropical climates,) by the external application of the nitro-muriatic acid in a bath : with several cases, wherein it has been used by the author with great utility. To which is added, the present most approved method of mixing the acids, and preparing the bath / by Phineas Coyne.

  • Coyne, Phineas.
Date:
1822
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Credit: Observations (from experience) on the aid obtained, in various diseases, (particularly those incidental to tropical climates,) by the external application of the nitro-muriatic acid in a bath : with several cases, wherein it has been used by the author with great utility. To which is added, the present most approved method of mixing the acids, and preparing the bath / by Phineas Coyne. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    vu ought to be better judges than those who are in daily and hourly attendance. It makes a vast difference, in forming our opinions of the necessary treatment, to view the disease at the bedside, or in perspective. Nevertheless, in reference to bleeding in cholera, from what I saw of the disease in India, whenever there were spasmodic contractions, with coldness of the extremities, vomiting, and a fluttering pulse, bleeding did not appear to be indicated. Yet a very intelligent medical friend of mine, lately returned from India, tells me, that with the symptoms named above, he has put his patients into a hot bath, and whilst there, took away a large quantity of blood. That the bleeding will give a temporary relief in the spasms, no person will doubt; but then the cause of the spasms still existing, (and no possibi¬ lity of administering any remedy during the syncope produced by the bleeding,) they will return with double power upon the system, whose energy is so much diminished. Were I to presume to lay down a general rule of practice for India in cholera, I should say that our sheet-anchor was opium and mercury; added to which, I should, in such cases, immediately put the patient into the nitro-muriatic bath, prepared m the manner directed in this work. In the disease to which I now allude, (the aggravated cholera,) the bath must be made very considerably stronger than it is generally used. It is of vital importance that the heat of the body