A letter to Sir Gilbert Blane, Bart. physician to the King, &c. &c. &c. from Sir Anthony Carlisle, surgeon extraordinary to His Majesty, &c. &c. 7c. On blisters, rubifacients and escharotics : giving an account of the employment of an instrument adapted to transmit a defined degree of heat, to effect those several purposes.

  • Anthony Carlisle
Date:
1826
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Credit: A letter to Sir Gilbert Blane, Bart. physician to the King, &c. &c. &c. from Sir Anthony Carlisle, surgeon extraordinary to His Majesty, &c. &c. 7c. On blisters, rubifacients and escharotics : giving an account of the employment of an instrument adapted to transmit a defined degree of heat, to effect those several purposes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    L»] —but they should be dressed with Kirk- land's Neutral Cerate, in preference to soft greasy ointments. I have generally found that an escharotic effect follows the application of the instrument, if immediately applied at it's highest temper- ature, and if it be thus continued on the part beyond five seconds; but this occurrence is much more moderate in it's effects than the moxa. When the heated Blisterer has been exposed to the air for ten minutes, it requires to be held two seconds longer in contact; but the bulk of the metallic head retains a blistering temperature for nearly fifteen minutes, and the rapidity with which the heat is transmitted to the skin gives it more potency than water of the same temperature, or any slower conduct- ing substance. When the instrument is required to produce Rubifacient effects, the part should be covered with dry silk, and the instrument moved slowly over the surface in the manner of a laundress
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