Manual of therapeutics / by L. Martinet ; translated, with alterations and additions, by Robert Norton.
- Date:
- 1830
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Manual of therapeutics / by L. Martinet ; translated, with alterations and additions, by Robert Norton. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.
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![general bleeding must be resorted to if leeching fails. It is always important, especially in the arachnitis of children, to allay by emollient cataplasms, irritation of the hairy scalp, while the return of a formerly existing eruption should be encouraged. Dr. Bland has suggested the practicability of opposing excessive determination of blood to the brain, by compres- sion of the carotid arteries, and in the hands of its author it appears to have been frequently successful: in a thin sub- ject this is easily accomplished, by drawing the carotids forwards, towards each other, and then pressing them against the larynx : in fat or muscular subjects, it is neces- sary to recline the head and press the arteries against the vertebral column. This compression should be perse- vered in the longer, as the cerebral congestion is more con- siderable ; it must, however, be occasionally interrupted. [Dr. Parry also has attempted to prove, tliat the flow of blood to the brain can be intercepted by this means, the employment of which, he considers to be of tlie highest im- portance in the treatment of cerebral atfections: the general opinion appears to be, that it is too difficult of execution, and too uncertain in its results, to be worthy of particular atten- tion : at the utmost, its influence cannot be more than tem- porary.] The antiphlogistic treatment should be seconded by placing the feet in hot water, or, if the patient cannot be taken out of bed for this purpose, manuluvia may be subsf i>](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2193342x_0040.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
