The treatment of surgical inflammations by a new method, which greatly shortens their duration / by Furneaux Jordan.

  • Jordan, Furneaux, 1830-1911.
Date:
1870
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    the counter-inflammation must be strictly a second, and never an aggravation of the first inflammation—as counter-irritation over the thin parietes of the cranium, or thorax, or abdomen, or knee joint, or subcutaneous abscess, may readily be, if deeply acting irritants arc used. IY. THE BEST REMEDIES FOR INFLAMMATION—THEIR SELECTION. It is scarcely necessary to say that the grand basis of the selection of remedies must be that of success— success which must be judged by the results of ex- perience. How to select these : It has for a long time appeared to me that if in any inflammation there are any remedies which are quicker in action than others, such remedies should be tried in all inflamma- tions. It seems so natural to suppose that the remedies which are the best in some inflammations, should be the best in all, that they should at least be proved to be inferior before others are tried. I have found an uniform plan of treatment the most successful. To logical minds no remedy is the worse if it is capable of intelligent explanation. To such minds, if any select class of remedies are not only in practice