Elements of the practice of physic, for the use of those students who attend the lectures read on this subject at Guy's Hospital / [By William Saunders].
- Guy's Hospital
- Date:
- [1798]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Elements of the practice of physic, for the use of those students who attend the lectures read on this subject at Guy's Hospital / [By William Saunders]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![integuments, and keeping the part moift, promote the general view in fuppuration. The proper period for the evacuation of the pus, and the mod eligible means of doing it, are confiderations which belong to the furgeon. In cafes of abfcefs, pus is frequently improved and corre&ed by good air, a milk diet, the ufe of bark, and other tonics. In many cafes of relaxation and dimi- nifned inflammation, external Itimulants and efcharotics are often applied with advantage, efpecially the prepa¬ rations of mercury and copper. Pus is likewife., corrected by means which dimimih n aiKd irritat pain ana irritation ; hence arifes the ufe of opium, cicuta, and perhaps many others of the fedative clafs of remedies. Inflammation frequently (hews a tendency to gangrene, which fhould be difcouraged by every proper means. Gangrene, in its early ftagej^rga^ be ^obviated by dimi- /vw ^ w ^_ ^ * niftiing the inflammatory diathefis as directed above.A When it has already come on, every poliible means fhould be ufed to prevent its fpreading, by exciting a fuppuratory inflammation in the neighbouring parts. ^ The internal ufe of bark in gangrene with atGnia> fhould freely employed ; warm and antifeptic fomen- tations and cataplafms may be directed with advantage. frxOpium has lately been recommended as a fpecific, in ^5x1 U a particu^ar Ipecies of gangrene. far. fa/]? <rr In cafes of fcirrhus, the cure may be attempted by fmall dofes of the neutral falts, fea-water, and alkaline & ' *+* remedies. In forne cafes cicuta, mercury, and antimony, promote the refolution of fcirrhus. If a fcirrhus be large, increaflng, loofe and detached. 7 V tn^-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31915577_0048.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
