Volume 2

A treatise on the diseases of children : with directions for the management of infants from the birth / By Michael Underwood.

  • Michael Underwood
Date:
1799
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A treatise on the diseases of children : with directions for the management of infants from the birth / By Michael Underwood. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

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    aperture, and making frefh pun<flures as the matter fliall collect. White Swelling of the Joints. ][ SHALL be equally brief alfo on this article, the difcafe being well known to every furgeon; and my intention in nam- ing it being only to mention, from experi- ence, a few remedies that have been found fuccefsful in young fubjedls, if had recourfe to in good time, and before matter has been formed. Such are, the repeated application of eight or more leeches, and afterwards fmall blifters to the joint; gentle frictions of the part; two or three vomits a week ; with entire reft of the limb; and in the end, fea- bathing, efpecially if the patient be of a fcrofulous habit. It has been faid, that a poultice of boiled turnips, with a lump of hogs-lard, applied twice a day, has, in feveral incipient cafes entirely removed the complaint. And in a few inftanees that i