Illustrations of the power of compression & percussion, in the cure of rheumatism, gout, and debility of the extremities : and in promoting health and longevity / by William Balfour.

  • Balfour, William, 1780-
Date:
1819
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Credit: Illustrations of the power of compression & percussion, in the cure of rheumatism, gout, and debility of the extremities : and in promoting health and longevity / by William Balfour. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    of the arteries, that supply it with blood. ' For, if the elasticity of the trunks re- main the same, while that of the branches is diminished, more than their due proportion of blood rauat be poured into the latter, without any iocreoaed * action of the former. But, inde]>cndcnt of the fiKta, that Percussion and Compresaion, if timeoua- ly applied, will often obviate indamina- tion, all the symptomt that diaciii|(uiali Phlcjjmon conspire to prove, that atoay of the capillary blood-veaaeU ia to be regardeii as its proximate cauae. On this ^oiind, wc have i^dcmvoured to explain the swellinj^ and rwineaa; it re- mains to account for the pulsation and boat of the tumour. Tliis I attempt, bv the enumeration of a lew tacts the truth of which daily obaer^aiion and experience confima. We never hear, then, a patient com- plain of heat and throbbiog pain io a