Copy 1, Volume 1

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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    external pressure, as habitually forcing the chest, in Gey. VII. writing, against the hard edge of a desk; or, which still prmctoie more frequently occurs, and is productive of far severer chronica. effects, by the absurd, though fashionable, use of tight Tight Ae stays, which, while they undermine the health, generally oP aieccc coop up and distort the chest into a shape equally un- effects. graceful and unnatural. This barbarous custom cannot be too strongly inveighed against: for though the im- prisoned young female may, by dint of habit, and where little exercise or exertion is required, be able to obtain a sort of triumph over the primary mischief of adhesions hereby produced; yet may she pave the way for an ob- stinate cough, phthisis, and lateral curvature of the spine; and should she escape these, she will still have other inconveniences to suffer as soon as she reaches a state of pregnancy. In attempting either to cure or to palliate the present Treatment. species of pleuralgia, we must direct our eye as nearly as possible to its cause. If the affection be symptomatic, we must combat the original disease. If idiopathic, bleeding Bleeding from the arm will generally be found requisite, and freely, Seictirwes ; ; quisite : if we suspect plethora ;. but locally by cupping.,or leeches, by the arm if it be from the mischievous habit of dress we have just % locally. reprobated, and the constitution, as is mostly the case, be relaxed and delicate. Here also dry cupping has been fre- Dry cup- quently found serviceable. Under all circumstances, a PS loose dress should be insisted upon. Blistering will often Loosedress. afford relief, and the discharge should be rendered per- Blistering. manent; but a seton or an issue will generally succeed Setons and better, than a blister. Electricity by drawing sparks has ¢% _ also proved frequently of use. [Laennec’s opinion of mag- P/eetsiy- netism has been noticed under the first species, where the other remedies in which he confides are also briefly men- tioned. ] Quiet rather than exercise is demanded, and the ablest course of internal medicines will be that which is Inirritant best calculated to take off irritating and irregular action, ™*icines- as bark, valerian, snake-root, conium, and the various pre- parations of the hop. END OF VOL. I.