A medical commentary on fixed air ... / By Matthew Dobson.

  • Matthew Dobson
Date:
1787
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Credit: A medical commentary on fixed air ... / By Matthew Dobson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    I have experienced to be a convenient and fafe method of applying a fomentation to the os: pubis, and what generally gives eafe. A clyfter alfo of two ounces of olive oil, and forty drops of the thebaic tin@ure, may be’ injected’ and retained for feveral hours. If neverthelefs the mephitic alka- line water fhould prove too ftimulant to: be repeated during the fit, which feldom hap- pens, barley-water, with gum arabic, may be fubftituted in its place; and when the pain has fubfided, recourfe may again be had to the mephitic alkaline water. — The following experiments were made by myfelf on the fame fubject. ~ Two calculi of a fimilar appearance, of a whitith colour with a pink tinge, and of fach a confiftence as to be eafily fcratched with the point of a knife, the one weighing five grains, and the other two grains and a half, were put into fix ounces of the alk. which time the folution was> changed fix, times, they were diminifhed i weight five . phe: and a half, but the apparent fize