A practical treatise on injuries of the head / Edward Bewley.

  • Bewley, Edward
Date:
1831
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    opportunity of witnessing the good effects result ing from this mode of treatment, in tJie Meath Hospital, will have no hesitation in applyinff ^eches to the erysipelatous tumor following wounds of the scalp. In every case where w! aie obliged to use general blood-letting for the 3 '^u {^''''''^ ^^^^1 application of leeches will have a beneficial effect; and, in milder cases. It will be proper to a^ply them without previous venesection. The number we apply must, m general, be considerable,—regu- lated, however, by the age and strength of ?he patient -the extent of the ervsipelasf-the de! gree of tumefaction and tension of th^ scalp 1 Ittr ^''^ ^^'^ carried our otliei- evacuatiotis. ; 61. But, as we have already seen, it is uDon the cousututional treatment we are to plaee our chief reliance. In some cases, particulaWv youi^ and plethoiic subjects, th; rerls s'o and the local symptoms so violent, that we mnsl at once have recourse to venesection, without erefiies''Tr t i^^^T ^ ^^^^^ 1 emedies. The bleeding should be in proportion to the urgency of the symptoms. Sixteen Cnees t^ken '^''■''^.^ average quantity to be Jf necessary. 1 he blood-letting is to be follower] by the application of leeches, fs direcLl atve and the other parts of the antiphlogistic system whe? M \ 'P^' I milder Ces' where bleeding has not been practised, we musj keep in mind, that the peculiar appeaianre 0^^* wound and surrounding inteffumpntT1 entirely on some disordled stS^e of he cCf brourSVm^' ITT I.