Volume 3

Elements of the theory and practice of physic : designed for the use of students / by George Gregory.

  • George Gregory
Date:
1823
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Credit: Elements of the theory and practice of physic : designed for the use of students / by George Gregory. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    | observe in inflammatory action. It has been sug- gested, that is to say, that there may be differences in the nature of inflammatory action; that the same set of vessels may at one time be in a state of phlegmo- nous, and at another of erysipelatous, or rheumatic inflammation. This refinement, however, appears to be unnecessary. The general principles of treatment in inflammation admit of being laid down with some accuracy, but they are of course varied by many circumstances, among which the most important are the period or stage of the disease; the exciting cause, and the structure of the part inflamed. ]. In the early stages of acute internal inflamma- tion, the zndication of cure is to diminish the action of vessels. This is to be effected by venesection, purging, and refrigerant medicines ; occasionally also by emetics, blisters, and the local application of cold. The choice of the particular means for the fulfilment of this indication, in the different inflammatory affec- tions of the body, will be a principal object of enquiry hereafter. When suppuration is established, mode- rate evacuations may sometimes be proper, and even rendered necessary by the urgency of a particular: symptom; but the mischief being now done, the ob- ject of the practitioner is to support the strength of the patient rather than to exhaust it. Internal gan- grene being so rarely an object of treatment by the physician, it is only necessary to remark in this place, that it requires the exhibition of wine and other cer-