Observations on a new and easy method of curing disorders, by factitious air, without the use of drugs. Also, an enquiry into the medical properties of positive and negative electricity / [Loftus Wood].
- Wood, Loftus
- Date:
- 1780
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Observations on a new and easy method of curing disorders, by factitious air, without the use of drugs. Also, an enquiry into the medical properties of positive and negative electricity / [Loftus Wood]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![[ ’3 ] fpots on her legs and arms, cramps, pains of the limbs, fmall pulfe, opprefiions of the breaft, debility, foetid breath, foft and fpiingy gums, frequently bleeding ; was perfectly re- covered in the fpace of three weeks, by ufing fixed Air and eating ripe fruit. The fame Au- thor relates the cafe of an unmarried lady, about fifty years of age, in a bad habit of bo- dy, having the jaundice for five weeks to a very^ violent degree: The common remedies gene- rally employed for this diforder, were ufed for a confiderable time, without affording any re- lief ; (lie was then ordered fixed Air three times a day; by degrees her diforder left her, and fhe perfectly recovered : In two years after, fhe re- lapfed, but was cured again by the fame me- dicine. Riverlus and Boerhaave recommended fixed Air as a foverelgn remedy in ficknefs and vo- mitings in fevers. This medicine has been often employed as a diffolvent for the ftone. In the fifty-feventh volume of the Philofophical Tranfadllons, the Hon. Henry Cavendifij mentions the great power of fixed Air in dilfolving calcarious earths: This fad has been proved by the experiments of fe- veral](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28759114_0015.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
