Volume 1

Miscellaneous observations in the practise of physick, anatomy, and surgery, with new and curious remarks in botany ... Communicated in several letters to eminent physicians and learned members of the Royal Society ... To which is prefix'd a letter to the late Dr. Baynard, with new experiments, and considerable improvements in the use of the cold bath ... / [Patrick Blair].

  • Blair, Patrick, -1728
Date:
1718
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Credit: Miscellaneous observations in the practise of physick, anatomy, and surgery, with new and curious remarks in botany ... Communicated in several letters to eminent physicians and learned members of the Royal Society ... To which is prefix'd a letter to the late Dr. Baynard, with new experiments, and considerable improvements in the use of the cold bath ... / [Patrick Blair]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the Body, for I have feveral times extirpated Glands behind the Ears, by which the Di- fteniper has proceeded no further: I have opened fuch of them as were fix’d at the Bate before the Suppuration, and got out the glan- dulous and grumOuS Subftance by Digeftiori, by which I have more than once {top’d the Progrefs of thefe fcrophulous Tumors, and when feveral glandulous Tumors have acquir’d a confiderable Bignefs in different Places of the Body at once, I have made a large Incifiori upon one or two of them, and taken care to cure them, upon which all the others have de¬ cay’d and dwindled away, even after the Pa¬ tients had laboured many Years in Diftempers of that nature, for they not being opened in due time, had been fuffered to open of them- felves, and had all along emitted fuch vitiated Particles to the Blood as were the Tomes to Tumors of that Nature throughout the other Parts of the Body. But if upon the curing of any of thefe Tumors the Humor being de¬ prived of its ordinary Sink or Shore was di¬ verted of its ufual Courfe, and was depo- lited upon other glandulous Parts of the Body \ if (I fay) this newly generated Tumor was not extirpated before it was fix’d at the Bafe, then the Humors like an impe¬ tuous Torrent flow’d into it, and tho’ the for¬ mer part was cured, a new Mifchief has arl«