Volume 1

Collections from the unpublished medical writings of the late Caleb Hillier Parry.

  • Caleb Hillier Parry
Date:
1825
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Collections from the unpublished medical writings of the late Caleb Hillier Parry. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    versa, the hand, foot, or any other part, may be cold to the touch while it feels warm, because the internal part is warm. Standing before the fire with one’s back, and eating, both produce a feeling of coldness; the first probably by drawing the blood to the surface, and so robbing deeper parts (hence chilliness), and the latter by drawing blood to the stomach, &c., and so cooling the muscles. Difference as to the Nature and Causes of Fain and Soreness.—Pain is an actual sensation. Sore- ness is the capacity of it on slight stimulus. The former always seems to accompany the latter *, but the latter may exist without the former. | May 28, 1808.] Pam diminishes the action of the heart, and some- times even brings on coldness and fainting, and therefore the circulation of the blood in the extreme vessels. Hence in inflammatory affections pain is beneficial, by diminishing that impetus which consti- tutes, or at least is essential to, inflammation, and therefore tends to cure the disease ; just as fainting cures haemorrhage. Pain (not from a cutting instrument) ceasing with faintness, is a proof that it is owing to arterial momentum. Pains themselves, even without fever, increase at night, and become better about five in the morning. Pain producing CEdema.—In Mrs. P., and others, a violent pain of her head, especially on the right