On the speedy relief of pain and other nervous affections, by means of the hypodermic method / by Charles Hunter.

  • Hunter, Charles, 1834 or 1835-1878.
Date:
1865
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Credit: On the speedy relief of pain and other nervous affections, by means of the hypodermic method / by Charles Hunter. 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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    n'a ^16 employde jusqu' ici sur I'homme que par exception, devra devenir mdthode g6ii6ral6 pour I'adiiiinistratiDn do tons les iiifcdicamonts euergiquea, et & l'6tat de pureW.—Rocherchea ExpSrimeiitales but I'Opium et sea Alcaloides; piir M. lo Dr. Claude Boruiird, 'Aruh. Oinirales de Med.,' 1804. One action of a remedy discovered, or applied to the successful treatment of disease, with an ^mderstanding of how the result is obtained, is worth more, in a scientific point of view, tlian all the lucky hits which a man may Make in a whole lifetime of successful practice.—Dr. Barclay's Introductory Address, 'Lancet,' Nov. 1», 1862. As by this method we get the whole effect op the known quantity intboduced, which we are not sure of getting by the other modes, we have now a means, as accurate as that of venous injection (without its dangers), for testing the precise effect of little known medicines on animals ; and the exact doses and effects of well-known medicines on man ; of noting the difference which the sex requires in the d jse ; and of a-tcertaining the minimum amount required to produce a desired effect.—The Author, On the Hypoder- mic Treatment, Meiucai; Times anl. Gazutte, 1859, p. ' 65, and p. 46 of this Pamphlet.