Observations on gangrenes and mortifications, accompanied with, or occasioned by, convulsive spasms, or arising from local injury, producing irritation / by Charles White.

Date:
1790
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Credit: Observations on gangrenes and mortifications, accompanied with, or occasioned by, convulsive spasms, or arising from local injury, producing irritation / by Charles White. 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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    [ «° ] many and great obligations to the late Mr. Pott, for the criterions by which this fpecies of mortification may be diftin- guifhed with precifion, and the recom- mendation of large and repeated dofes of opium, as its mode of cure. I flatter myfelf I have found out alfo a remedy for another fpecies of the dif- order, but notwithftanding both thefe difeoveries may ftand the teffc of experi- ence and time, the bark will Hill be ufe- ful in mortifications occafioned by a relaxed habit, by a broken and diflolved crafis of the blood, and thofe arifing from a kind of acrimony attended with putref- cency. And, in cafes highly inflammatory, bleeding and the antiphlogiftic plan will be neceffary, together with nitre and the mineral acids. In general, the conclufion, I believe, may be fafely drawn, that gangrenes and mortifications, arifing from different caufes, in different habits, and under particular circumftances, require different methods of treatment; as in general all the different