The retrospective address, delivered at the eleventh anniversary meeting of the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association, held at Leeds, August 2nd and 3rd, 1843 / by Thomas Shapter.

  • Thomas Shapter
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1843
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Credit: The retrospective address, delivered at the eleventh anniversary meeting of the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association, held at Leeds, August 2nd and 3rd, 1843 / by Thomas Shapter. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ]I0 ralg'ic affections ; he used it four times diluted, and rubbed in night and morning. Chlorine.—The use of chlorine has been recom- mended in scarlet fever, and, from the reports, its exhibition has been attended with success. Dr. Hunt recommends the chlorate of potash in can- crum oris and phagedena of the cheek, in doses of one or two scruples in the 24 hours. Mercury.—Mr. Murray,* in a paper on the direct and primary action of calomel, has added some little to our knowledge of this remedy: he shows, from experiments on dogs, that, in moderate doses, it excites an afflux of blood to the minute arteries and capillaries of the gastro-intestinal mucous mem- brane, more particularly the gastric and colic por- tions, imparting to it a capilliform, punctiform, or uniform red tinge, &c.; that it increases the flow of bile into the duodenum and the secretions from the intestinal mucous follicles and serous exhalants; that in inordinate doses, (1, 2, 3 drachms,) in addi- tion to the above, capilliform injections of the serous coat of the intestines and a morbid sanious dis- charge from the mucous follicles. Ergot of Rye.—The therapeutic uses of the ergot in other cases than as an adjuvant to labour are thus summed up by Dr. Bernhard Ritter, of Rottenburgif Its use is indicated in cases of haemorrhage, and especially in uterine, utero-placental, and puerperal liaemorrhages; in critical epistaxis and haemoptysis, * Transactions of Medical Society of Bombay. t Medicinische Annalen.