Sketches of the most prevalent diseases of India : comprising a treatise on the epidemic cholera of the East, statistical and topographical reports of the diseases in the different division of the army under the Madras presidency / by James Annesley.

  • Annesley, James, Sir, 1780-1847.
Date:
1829
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    ence of abscess, but it may be imminently im- pending. In this case our practice must be most decided, and should consist chiefly of large local depletions, which must be repeated until the symptoms of coming danger vanish, or as far as the powers of the system may admit. In those cases where the formation of matter is evident, and the fulness about the margin of the ribs or its vicinity is considerable, the treatment must necessarily depend upon what has been pre- viously done. In these the employment of mer- cury ought to be entirely laid aside, excepting as a purgative; for attempts to affect the salivary glands with it will generally fail, will merely add irritation to an already irritable pulse, and ma- terially injure the powers of the system — those very powers on which the future recovery of the patient most materially depends. If the local symptoms, and the state of the pulse and of the system, seem to require it, the application of a few leeches in the vicinity of the tumefaction will be generally serviceable; and afterwards poul- tices should be assiduously employed, with a view of promoting the external pointing of the abscess. Although the continuance of mercurial prepa- rations, after the existence of abscess is apparent, with any other view than that of carrying off the morbid biliary and intestinal secretions, (when calomel, in the manner in which I have particu-