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.

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    PREFACE. On the 23rd of last May, a paper of mine was read at the Eoyal Medical and Chirurgical Society upon the subject of this pamphlet. The President, in opening the discussion, did me the honour to say, that the object of the paper was one of very great interest; so great, that the Council had appointed a Committee to investigate it. * The conclusions of that Committee have not yet been arrived at; pending their decision, I venture to hope that the contents of the following pages, may conduce more fully to explain my views upon this subject, than the limited scope of a single paper would permit of. Should another apology be requisite for the appearance of these pages, it is, that in them are embodied my replies to the majority of inquiries that have been made of me per literas, from time to time; and which I cannot always find time to reply to. In the following pages the treatment of diseases, more especially of the central nervous system, by means of the Hypodermic Method, is discussed. The Hypodermic Method (from 'Ttto, sub, and Aep/jta, cutis), was the name I gave this plan of introducing medicines in 1859, to imply treatment carried on under, or beneath, the true skin. I so named it that the phraseology should accord with that already existing of ew_2J*dermiCj or treatment carried on above; and epidermic, by means of, the cutis vera, or true skin itself. * Medical Times and Gazette, June '3, 1866.