A few remarks on the uses and mode of applying the new materials lately introduced by the Patent Epithem Company, as a substitute for poultices and fomentation cloths / [Alfred Markwick].

  • Markwick, Alfred, 1822?-1881
Date:
1846
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Credit: A few remarks on the uses and mode of applying the new materials lately introduced by the Patent Epithem Company, as a substitute for poultices and fomentation cloths / [Alfred Markwick]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    neat and even elegant appearance. It is intended, as we have seen, as a protector to the chest, and as a covering for “rheumatic joints, &c., and will be found extremely useful in cases of sore-throat, tic- douloureux, and other diseases. As a protector to the chest, it will prove invaluable; indeed, when I say that it effectually retains the warmth of the part to which it is applied, and entirely prevents all contact of cold or damp, its superiority over hare-skins, and, in fact, every thing that has ever been before invented, must be at once apparent. It excites the vessels of the surface, increases the exhalation from them, and produces a degree of counter irritation, which is of so much advantage in many cases. It is made of various degrees of thickness, so as to adapt it both for constant wear next the skin, and as an occasional covering to be placed between the waistcoat and the shirt, on leaving heated rooms, places of worship, theatres, &c. &c. or when exposed to the weather. Hence, it is well adapted for persons in travelling, for railway-guards, and policemen. When moistened with some stimulating liniment, it will be found an excellent substitute for what are called “ Warm Plasters,” unattended by the very great objections to which these are subject. Thus they do not like these adhesive applications in any way confine the motions of the chest, but on the con¬ trary allow of its free expansion; neither do they soil the linen or the person, nor occasion that un¬ pleasantness, and the inconvenience that is neces¬ sarily attendant upon the use ol these very disagree¬ able remedies. For various diseases in animals also these new materials will be particularly useful. This, however, is a subject ralher foreign to this Pamphlet, therefore, 1 will do no more than merely mention the fact, leaving it lo others to whose province it more particu¬ larly belongs, to enter more into detail respecting it. 10, Langham Place.