Observations on gangrenes and mortifications : accompanied with, or occasioned by, convulsive spasms, or arising from local injury, producing irritation / By Charles White.
- Charles White
- Date:
- 1790
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Observations on gangrenes and mortifications : accompanied with, or occasioned by, convulsive spasms, or arising from local injury, producing irritation / By Charles White. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![[ ] many and great obligations to the late Mr. Pott, for the criterions by which this fpecies of mortification may be diftin- guilhed with precifion, and the recom¬ mendation of large and repeated dofes of opium, as its mode of cure, I flatter myfelf I have found out alfo a remedy for another fpecies of the dis¬ order, but notwithftanding both thefe difcoveries may ftand the teft of experi¬ ence and time, the bark will ftill be ufe- ful in mortifications occafioned by a relaxed habit, by a broken and dilfolved crafis of the blood, and thofe arifing from a kind of acrimony attended with putref- cency. And, in cafes highly inflammatory, bleeding and the antiphlogiftic plan will be neceflary, together with nitre and the mineral acids. In general, the conclufion, I believe, may be fafely drawn, that gangrenes and mortifications, arifing from different caufes, in different habits, and under particular eircumftances, require different methods of treatment5 as in general all the different fpecies](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30793889_0010.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
