Supplement to the Introduction to the atomic theory : comprehending a sketch of certain opinions and discoveries bearing upon the general principles of chemical philosophy, which have been brought into notice since the publication of that work / by C. Daubeny.

  • Daubeny, Charles Giles Bridle, 1795-1867.
Date:
1840
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    Where hernia happens, the patient is generally fai' away front a hospital and convenience of a hot-water bath. The first surgeon at hand should he instructed to employ the most active and immediate means—viz., cold water in a bladder externally, and, by enema, internally, which constrict the blood vessels ; thereby congestion is removed, and the hernia will be often reduced by its own efforts, or by slight nse of the taxis. The congestion of a finger caused by a riug would not be removed by a warm bath. The surgeon would not cut off the finger, or the ring ; neither should he cut the bowels, nor the stricture. Disadvantages of present plans: Ignorance of the first surgeon at hand, therefore delays, and, frequently, a long tedious journey for the poor; or no convenience for hot water bath, or not sufficient hot-water, or parboiling the patient, besides the danger, after the knife of exposing the delicate bowels to manipulation and to cold air, which causes numberless deaths, even under the direction of the most skilful surgeons. Stricture in urethra causes retention of urine, by the Stricture, gjogjj^g Qf t]jQ urethra at two or three difierent parts of the canal. There are several kinds, arising from various causes. Inflammation, and its consequences, are the chief for our con- sideration. If inflammation of the mucous membrane causes stricture, the whole length of the canal would be liable to stricture. Such is not the case; therefore we look for the cause of stricture exterior to the mucous membrane, as in goitre. The external swellings to the passage must naturally cause pressure, or stricture. The enlargement, or inflammation, is subdued by local applica- tions and internal medicines, as in goitre, so that the passage is relieved when the urine passes freely without a catheter, the cause of stricture being entirely removed. Whilst we know the anatomy and physiology of cataract, hernia, and stricture in uretha, we need not, as it were— Open the works of a watch to wind it up ; Neither kill the goose for the sake of the egg ; Nor cut open the bellows for the sake of curiosity;— the present operations for hernia* and stricture being often performed when, by delays and age, there is little or no chance of success. Instruction to the living may be set forth; but this idea will soon vanish if due attention is paid to the physiological views laid down. Futhermore, it is contended that a prized student of anatomy and of chemistry might be thoroughly ignorant of the physiological points herein set forth ; therefore physiology is a new branch of educational knowledge, fitting for the benefit of public health. By WILLIAM PAEKER, M.R.C.S., L.A.O. 3/6? Octoler, 1857; 27, Dayiiel Street, Bath. : • d Ttr T , n,. , « Cmcz operated on. Deaths, Successful. • {See Medical Times ani Gazeitc, 31st .Tan,, 1857 ... 25 14 11 » 10th Oct,, 1357 ... 30 20 10