Practical observations on herniae : illustrated with cases / by B. Wilmer, surgeon, in Coventry.
- Wilmer, Bradford
- Date:
- 1802
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Credit: Practical observations on herniae : illustrated with cases / by B. Wilmer, surgeon, in Coventry. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![“ Thefe folutions, though they gradually ap- ** proached to the temperature of the air in the •« room, prefcrved their relative degrees of heat «* for a full hour after the experiments were made. “ From the refult it appears, that a faturated folu- K tion of crude fal ammoniac in fimple water, as ** producing the greateft degree of cold, is the ** beft adapted to the purpofe in queftion ; and “ though it may be proper to ufe it freffi diflolved, I have obferved that, except it be kept in a very warm room, it preferves longer its lower temperature than other fluids; a property upon «k which its efficacy, as a difcutient, not impro- •« bably depends. I cannot account for all the ct mixtures into which vinegar entered, being the «c hotteft, I can only fay, that it was the reverfe of 11 what I expefted. 11 1 am, &c. See. &c. John Storer. « Grantham, 13/A of May i7So.’> CASES VI. VII. VIII. and IX* [Communicated by Mr. Alanson.] «f I have met with three cafes of flrangulated « hernias fince I wrote to you laftj they had been “ mifmanaged, that is, the patients had been “ poulticed, fomented, or had taken ftrong purges. «« They were all eafily reduced by cold appli- cations, and afterwards the affiftance of the “ hands.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21438948_0068.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
