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Credit: Materia medica and therapeutics / by Martyn Paine. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![jure, if carried to excess, and may even induce new in- flammation. 6. Its local, and sometimes its general, application is remedial when inflammation is induced by excessive bloodletting alone. 7. Bloodletting may be a remedy for other diseases than inflammation. 8. It is equally safe at all periods of life, is most in- dispensable, in a general sense, in old age, though not less important in many diseases of infancy. 9. If employed as a prophylactic, on passing from northern into tropical countries, it must be with such moderation as shall not increase irritability; and then only in the plethoric or robust. 10. General bloodletting, cupping, and leeching, op- erate upon common principles, which are more or less modified in each mode of abstracting blood. Cupping is intermediate in this respect betwixt general bloodletting and leeching. 11. Genera] bloodletting is a far more important rem- edy than leeching; and Avhile cases constantly arise in which the latter cannot be substituted for the former, there are numerous instances in which general bloodlet- ting cannot take the place of leeching. Cupping will sometimes answer the purposes of either, and may, though rarely,be better. 12. The brain has a particular allotment in the effects of bloodletting ; and inflammation of this organ will gen- erally sustain a greater loss of blood than any other. There are peculiar conditions of this organ, however, as in some cases of mania, delirium-a-potu, and especially apoplexy, in which, on account of the relation of the nervous influence to the organic powers, and the manner](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21145143_0028.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
