Enquiry into the propriety of blood-letting in consumptions / [Samuel Farr].

  • Samuel Farr
Date:
1775
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Credit: Enquiry into the propriety of blood-letting in consumptions / [Samuel Farr]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ *7 ] of ulcers in general from what are the confequence of wounds in fome external part of the body; in which by great care and affiduity, though not always without the aid of internal medicines, the Peruvian bark, mercurials, purgatives, &c. with a bland mild diet, we bring o;n a good di- geftion, which means the production of that inoffenfive fubftance called true pus. An ulcer may likewife arife in an external part without a previous wound in the flefh, to which we may refemble an hae- moptoe, or fpitting of blood. It may a- rife, I fay, in confequence of a general plenitude, when the fluid is forced into the external fkin, rather than into any inter¬ nal part, and then it is called a phlegmon or abfcefs. Here too when the body is in a perfeCt ftate of health, a laudable or good pus will be produced, and being opened with a knife or cauftie, no bad confequences will follow—If the matter produced fhould be too acrimonious, and partake of a different nature, we muft then have recourfe to the fame remedies' Which were employed in thofe ulcers we mentioned before. If an abfcefs, or, in E con-
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