Medical remarks on natural, spontaneous and artificial evacuation ... / [John Anderson].

  • John Anderson
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1787
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    Columella, during the plague in the reign of Claudius, until which time the cautery had been ufed In the ci]re of that difeafe. It was foon after extended to the epidemic and ma¬ lignant difeafes of horned cattle, and attended alfo In them with fuccefs. The feton, termed a roweU long been ufed lay farriers whenever a repletion, or a coacervatlon of humour^^ required a draino The pra(5tice of making iffues is very an¬ cient * Galen, Forreflus, Ambrofeius Par^uSy Glandorpius, Mercurialls, Platerus, Angelus ■ Sala, Rammazzini, Fracaftorius, and others of > the ancients, teftlfy their utility in pthifis, > fcrophula, lepra, lues-venerea, icurvy, epi- ) leply, rickets, cataradl, dimnels, gout, and J other afFedtions five anticipiendo, five curando; 'andallert, thole who have either Ipontaneous ; or artificial ulcers are fcarce ever known to die of the plague. The moderns, fuch as Flildanus and Baglivi, fpeak highly of the excellence of fetons in catarrh, phthlfis, hoemoptyfis, &c. Dr. Willis fays, he cured one patient of an obftinate weaknefs in the loins, and another of