Volume 1
The institutions of the practice of medicine : delivered in a course of lectures / by Jo. Baptist Burserius de Kanifeld ; translated from the Latin, by William Cullen Brown.
- Date:
- 1800-1803
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The institutions of the practice of medicine : delivered in a course of lectures / by Jo. Baptist Burserius de Kanifeld ; translated from the Latin, by William Cullen Brown. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.
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![cefsfully removed the fwellings which broke out, and which, before having recourfe to this re- medy, uniformly proved fatal, that not one of fuch as were bled, even when the pulfe was languid, died. Traverfarius, alfo, on Lancifi affirms, that in the fevers which prevailed from the year 1709 to 1711, blood-letting was very happily employed to remove thefe tumors. Puiatus jj likewife gives his teftimony in favour of luch a practice : nay, he fhews, by examples adduced, that blood may be let not only at the breaking out of the tumours, but alfo during their progrefs. Azzoguidi, a phyfician of great celebrity and experience, and Profeflor of the Practice at Bologna, ufed to treat thefe tumors in the fame manner, ordering blood to be drawn the moment they appeared ; nor have I ever ob- ferved any bad confequences to refult from fuch a method of treatment §. * De compof, pharmac. fecund. ]oc. 1. 3. c. 2. f Prax. med. 1. xvii. c-. 1. p. 354. t De nox. palud. effluviis, 1. 2. epid. 4. c. 5. || De morb. naron. fe&. 2. c. xii. p. 193. et feq. § I have very often found fwellings occur in patients treated by 'othcr Phyficians, but very feldom in fuch as I myfelf attended ; though, during the fpace of thirty years, a vaft number have 'come my care. Hence I am led to fufpeft, that the fymptomatic and pernicious fwellings of thefe glands, (which we have read to have been relieved by bleeding), arofe either rom bleeding having been improperly ncglefted at firft, or rom a fufficient quantity not having been taken to remove](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21915349_0001_0553.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
