Tentamen medicum inaugurale de ambustionibus / [William Kent].

  • Kent, William, 1802-1861.
Date:
[1823]
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Credit: Tentamen medicum inaugurale de ambustionibus / [William Kent]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Inter recentiores nostrates, sicut in eximio B. Bell * opere satis compertum habemus, me¬ thodus medendi valde incerta erat: ille tamen divisionem Fabricii Hildani adoptare non curavit! Industria vero Pearson, Thomson, et Kentish notitiam nostram de hac re mul¬ tum adauxit, et ^praecipue, ut mihi videtur, postremus, qui primus remedia valida et effica- cissima adhibere suasit, et ejus opiniones, nul¬ la apologia prolata, hic brevissime transcribam. Doctor Kentish narrat quomodo terebinthi¬ nam calefactam, aliaque stimulantia adhibere induceretur ; nempe, inutilitate aliorum reme¬ diorum, quse tunc in usu erant, bene perspecta. A factis theoriam deducit, et axioma se¬ quens assumit, “ That any part of the system having its action increased to a very high de- gree, must continue to be excited, although in a less degree, either by the stimulus which caused the increased action, or some other ha¬ ving the nearest similarity to it, until by degrees the extraordinary action subsides into the ordi- nary action of the part ” Ambustiones sic di» * System of Surgery.