On the theory of inflammation : inaugural dissertation / by J.J. Drysdale.

  • Drysdale, John James, 1817-1892.
Date:
1838
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    muli which are not adapted to the state of the vessels, as they merely tend to exhaust further them • irritability, without producing contraction. The various lotions, collyria, gargles, injections, and other local applications to inflamed parts, are cer- tainly stimulants; for, says Dr Thomson (p. 184), “ The continued application of most of these sub- stances, so far from subduing, would aggravate Inflammation; they would even excite that state where it did not previously exist.” Likewise all our remedies for chronic cutaneous eruptions (or inflammations) are stimulants, as pitch, citrine ointment, washes of corrosive sub- limate, &c., sulphur and other medicated baths, &c. Also the inhalation of iodine and other medicated vapours in chronic bronchitis and laryngitis. On the same principle may be explained the ac- tion of electricity, galvanism, the moxa and acu- puncture in deep seated inflammations, as these means are unquestionably powerful stimulants. Nothing can better illustrate the erroneous nature of the doctrine of increased action in inflammation, than the extreme vagueness and inadequacy of all the explanation of the action of tlie remedies of this class, viz. local applications. On tliis suliject.I. Hunter is singularly inconsistent. Having ]>re-