Copy 1, Volume 2

The study of medicine. Containing all the author's ... improvements / [John Mason Good].

  • John Mason Good
Date:
1829
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Credit: The study of medicine. Containing all the author's ... improvements / [John Mason Good]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    / CL. I11.] SANGUINEOUS FUNCTION. LORD. il. 639 The laudanum, on a cursory view, may seem to add to Gen. XI. the vascular torpor: but it tends to take off the pain and ,?=< soreness that still remain, and thus enables the tranquillized sparganosis. vessels the more easily to recover their tone. Yet what- eam ever application of this kind is employed, it should be ei el accompanied with gentle friction, continued for half an anum. hour or more, if the Jimb is able to bear it: for the friction “viewed itself is of essential service, and tends, perhaps, even more ais than any other local stimulant, to restore the limb toa healthy action. Mr. Trye advises, for the same purpose, the use of mer- Mercury. curial ointment; and others, that of small doses of calomel. But neither have proved decidedly useful; while, in some instances of great debility, they have evidently produced mischief. The chronic weakness is to be removed by acon- Chronic tinuance of the friction, bathing with sea-water, or, which pg is much better, bathing in the sea itself, an elastic flannel venabesteny bandage, horse exercise, pure air, and, if necessary, general tonics and astringents. SPECIES II. BUCNEMIA TROPICA. TUMID-LEG OF HOT CLIMATES. THE TUMID LIMB HARD, LIVID, AND ENORMOUSLY MISSHAPEN: SKIN AT FIRST GLABROUS, AFTER- WARDS THICK, SCALY, AND WARTED: SUCCESSIVELY BULGING AND INDENTED: OCCURRING CHIEFLY IN TROPICAL CLIMATES. Tuis species is intended to comprise that singular dis- Gzy. XI. ease, known in the West Indies, and generally over Europe, PREG sts . . a Barbadoes- by the name of Barbadoes-leg, from its being indigenous to jeg here the island of Barbadoes. Yet it is not in Barbadoes alone intended. that it makes its appearance: for it is of high antiquity, as well as of very wide range in hot, and especially in tropical