Observations and cases, illustrative of the efficacy of oxygen or vital air, in the cure of cancerous and other glandular enlargements / by Daniel Hill.

  • Hill, Daniel.
Date:
1824
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Credit: Observations and cases, illustrative of the efficacy of oxygen or vital air, in the cure of cancerous and other glandular enlargements / by Daniel Hill. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Hospital, when attending and dressing my patients as a student, I was invariably competent to pro- nounce, without fear of error, upon the drinking of strong spirits on the preceding evening, by the aggravated appearance of the sore, with a ten- dency to gangrene; when the common fomenta- tion of the Hospital was applied with a high tem- perature of heat, which was too often applied in sores accompanied with a scorbutic and relaxed habit of body, the hydrogenous fetor was often excessive. In such cases, the application of car- bonic acid air, has frequently proved extremely useful, not only as a means to allay pain, but to correct the fetor of the discharge, and when the oxygen gas is judiciously given to support the con- stitution, the most malignant sores are often com- pletely cured. I know no remedy of equal good effects, as carbonic acid gas, when introduced into deep sinuses and fistulous ulcers of various cases, which no other remedy can so Conveniently reach, or so effectually palliate, and often cure. I can adduce a strong instance of the efficacy of this gas, when applied to the painful surface of an amputated .finger, where the sense of pain was very acute, after making some necessary liga- tures, and on the patient placing his hand in a jar, filled on purpose with carbonic acid gas, the pain was instantly removed, and the expressions of the patient were, that he should not know that he had lost his finger ; but when it was again exposed