Some observations on consumption, scrofula or king's evil, gout, asthma, softness and distortion of the bones, rickets, cancer, insanity, and other chronical diseases... / [William Turton].

  • William Turton
Date:
1813
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Credit: Some observations on consumption, scrofula or king's evil, gout, asthma, softness and distortion of the bones, rickets, cancer, insanity, and other chronical diseases... / [William Turton]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    modic asthma, May not the suspension of consumption and other chronic affections during pregnancy, be in some measure attributed to the nausea and consequent absorption which regu- larly takes place at this time? | ie A. Sea-sickness, and the exercise of swinging and riding, are on this account much recom- mended; and the great effects produced by ci-_ cuta, stramonium, belladonna, and some other powerful remedies in asthma, struma, and scro- fulous ulcers, are effectual and specific, only in the proportion as they stimulate into action the extremities of the absorbents and lymphatics, perhaps previously in too mactive a state. B. Bleeding is likewise a valuable accessory, which it is necessary to resort to occasionally upon this principle; for as all inflammation is, in its remote cause, an undue stimulation and acceleration of arterial action ; Venesection, by lessening the volume of the blood, may create ah immediate absorption for the restoration of its due quantity, and thence subdue this morbid excitement. >: A. Many of the metallic oxyds, but especially those of mercury, act in a specific and vigorous manner upon the extreme capillary vessels, and stimulate them into very powerful action, more
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