A system of practical surgery / by William Fergusson.

  • William Fergusson
Date:
1852
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    thp m J-14 biapP n in the form of water> steam, flame, or through e medium of a solid material, will produce injuries nearly alike each being m proportion to the amount of caloric applied. Th/local effects said of I'm reSpe2f exact1^ similar, and the same may be _Q ? { chemical agents. The injury from any of these may be such f ‘ destr.°y the life of the part at once, possibly that of the entire heM has°hi “ay “fUCe m“y °-f the Pheilomena of inflammation. If heat has been so intense as to induce the resemblance of death the person cannot be expected to recover: the injury to the cutaneous tutfonec^PbS8lbly ‘° *he a.ir-P“a«--^ heeu such that no consti- tution can bear up against it. But it is well known that parties have been restored from a state of stupefaction resembling death, which has by IT1186 atTpherriC “ld- Gnadual8admission o'f heat ana removal to a warmer place, factions, blankets, &c„ and the exhi- SraMf Td‘aIS’ baTe been kri0’n t0 produce this happy change, free,? d,S’ bums’ andrthe IocaI bad effects of cold are injuries of such nXf T^Ttthat they are often treated by partii who are not m ui inaIuchn hence>Pr?bably> tb« variety of nostrums which are wi|i , b cases. It is curious to see how surgeons themselves and h^ih antlcl,?at,e S°mr peCUliar effects from a certain application covering at? -fl Chva”se br\ °ne thinS *° anotW in hope* ofdt fallacvof* Pt fiCI- ■Yet a lltt e retiecti°n should serve to shew the de«ry L t mt'aV*UoT,s- If a moxa is b«t over a part so as to t TJ e.sk“’lf the heated iron be aPPlied, or if a stong caustic slant think^tVT'lf™1 °f dlsease’the practitioner never for an in- anxtusTo L a he Cttn,.Und0 what has been d»ne; to be sure he is anxious to produce an eschar and discharge from the sore but at tb* r of fallacy on these points, and I doubt not that many cases of most triflieng k?udbeen Whele the ‘°Cal inJ'ury bas been »f the be merelvT btb,rS b! °/ T*? different sortsi tbe surface may fir u S“.rge0n sbould know that time alone will bring about a favourable change; and in the more severe forms he ma^e that he hirios0 K°Pe “a lnflammation and its consequences, fake other in- S a smtTofb? f * TVere kTd are almost “variably followed by such a state of shock and general collapse, that there is constant risk of the patient sinking; indeed, in such instances, the sir “out le t much required constitutionally, that it forms the principal feature