A practical treatise on various diseases of the abdominal viscera ... / [Christopher Robert Pemberton].

  • Christopher Robert Pemberton
Date:
1820
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Credit: A practical treatise on various diseases of the abdominal viscera ... / [Christopher Robert Pemberton]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ 5] pressed by the patient, particularly under the action of pressure ; and should this not be diminished in eight hours from the former venesection, I would recommend that the same quantity of blood should be again taken away. It generally happens that after this second bleeding the pain in six hours will become somewhat less acute, when it will be right to apply a dozen leeches to the abdomen, and as soon as they have performed their office, its whole surface should be covered with a blister. I wish it here to be clearly understood, that I do not recommend the use of either leeches or blister, until there appear some diminution of pain from the general bleed- ing. It commonly happens, as I have stated, that after the second bleeding the pain in six hours becomes less acute ; but it may happen, that the pain is not di- minished after this second bleeding. In such a case the bleeding must be repeated to the same quantity, to the third, fourth, or fifth time, after intervals of twelve hours