Manual of therapeutics / by L. Martinet... Tr., with alterations and additions, by Robert Norton.

  • Louis Martinet
Date:
1832
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Credit: Manual of therapeutics / by L. Martinet... Tr., with alterations and additions, by Robert Norton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

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    [As, however, there is only a very slight and indirect communication between the ex- ternal jugular veins and the meningeal arte- ries, little superiority can be justly attributed to this mode of abstracting blood; which is, moreover, not altogether free from danger.] To oppose the return of cerebral excite- ment, it is proper to cover the head with thin linen cloths, repeatedly wetted with cold water, the temperature of which should be made gradually lower to prevent subsequent re-action. Pulmonary catarrh, which is some- times the consequence of these cold applica- tions, must be guarded against, by covering the chest with flannel. We can exercise a powerful controul over the general re-action, (that is, frequency of pulse with heat of skin) as well as over the cerebral disturbance, and the convulsons which so frequently occur in children, by di- recting a continued stream of cold water upon the head, and if the organs of the chest are in a healthy state, over the whole body :
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