Practical observations on herniae : illustrated with cases / By B. Wilmer.

  • Wilmer, Bradford.
Date:
1802
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    jg appendix. Thefe Ibhittons’, though they gradually ap¬ se preached to the temperature of the air in the «« room, preferved their relative degrees of heat for a full hour after the experiments were made. u From the re hilt it appears, that a faturated folu- *c tion of crude fal ammoniac in fimple water, as *s producing the greateft degree of cold, is the €S bell adapted to the purpofe in queftion , and ** though it may be proper tpufe it frefh diflblved, <f I have obferved that, except it be kept in a «e very warm room, it preferves longer its lower C4 temperature than other fluids a property upon *k which its efficacy, as a difcutient, not impro- tc bably depends. I cannot account for all the ** mixtures into which vinegar entered, being the t€ hotteft, I can only fay, that it was the reverfe of 44 what I expeffed. u 1 am, &c. &c. Src. John Storer* Grantham> \%th of May 17So.* « v - . I • • i CASES VI. VII. VIII. and IX. [Communicated by Mr. Alanson.] u I have met with three cafes of ftrangulated 44 hernias fmce I wrote to you laft; they had been 4? mifmanaged, that is, the patients had been 4C poulticed, fomented, or had taken ftrong purges. u They were all eafily reduced by cold appli- a cations, and afterwards the affiftance of the 46 hands.