Facts establishing the efficacy of the opiate friction in spasmodic and febrile diseases. Also, outlines of an attempt to investigate the nature, causes, and method of cure, of hydrophobia and tetanus ... To which are added, cases and remarks / [Michael Ward].

  • Ward, Michael, active 1809.
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[1809]
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Credit: Facts establishing the efficacy of the opiate friction in spasmodic and febrile diseases. Also, outlines of an attempt to investigate the nature, causes, and method of cure, of hydrophobia and tetanus ... To which are added, cases and remarks / [Michael Ward]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Another strong argument in favour of the external application of opium in hydrophobia, is, that should it be found to be possessed of properties capable of counteracting the effects of the virus, it will be of peculiar advantage, that we can introduce it into the habit by the same system of vessels which convey the virus into the circulation : and it is worthy of con- sideration, that should my hopes and expecta- tions of success be disappointed, it does not seem probable that any mischief can be done by this practice. But whether opium applied, externally, may or may not prove an antidote to the canine virus, it woidd, I think, be unpardonable to rely exclu- sively on those plans of treatment, zvhich have been so often tried, and always zuithout success. Whoever may think proper to make trial of this mode of treatment, should see that the powder, if that be preferred to the tincture,* is made as fine as possible, and that it is rubbed in, in large quantities,! (the disease being so violent and so rapid in its progress) on the in- here. I must therefore content myself, for the present, with referring to the 7th., 8th. and 9th. volumes of the Med. and P. Journal, in the pages mentioned in the Introduction.] * Would it not be adviseable, till we know which of these preparations is absorbed with the greatest facility, to use both, either alternately, or together ? t Not less than a drachm of the powder, or an ounce and a half of the tincture, to an adult subject.