On neuralgic, rheumatic, and other painful affections : with notices of improved modes of treatment / by James Arnott.

  • Arnott, James Moncrieff, 1794-1885.
Date:
1851
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Credit: On neuralgic, rheumatic, and other painful affections : with notices of improved modes of treatment / by James Arnott. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    and, if I am not much mistaken, will very soon, from the safety I of its operation, its power and promptitude in arresting in- J flammatory and painful affection, and its extensive applicability I to diseases of this description, take its place in the very first' li rank of therapeutical measures. The fact extracted from the records of a public institution and circumstantially related in the following pages, of nine consecu' j| tive cases of one of the most painful affections to which the j human frame is subject, and which may be chosen as a type oil the whole class, being permanently cured by a single or, at most ij two applications of an anaesthetic temperature of five minutes j duration, is a striking evidence of the power and speed) ■ operation of the measure ; while its not having failed in an) d instance of the disease that presented itself within a specifier j period, entitles it to a character for certainty of action scarce ly inferior to that of bark or quinine as a remedy fo: j ague. This certainty eminently distinguishes it from the othe. I means hitherto employed for the same purposes, which, gene I rally speaking, are so little to be depended upon, that when paii 1 ceases during their employment, it becomes a question whethe | its cessation be an effect of their application or a men; coincidence. -