Medico-Chirurgical Transactions, Volume 6Longmans, Green and Company, 1815 - Medicine |
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Page 344 - The practice which has appeared to me to be, on the whole, the best, is the following. An opening having been made with an abscess lancet, the limb may be wrapped up in a flannel wrung out of hot water, and this may be continued as long as the matter continues to flow of itself.
Page 497 - ... that, if the navy had been equally sickly in 1813 as it was in 1779, and if there had been no improvement in the treatment of the sick, the whole number of deaths from disease in the former year would have exceeded the actual number by 6674. Under such an annual •waste of life, the national stock of mariners must have been exhausted in the course of the prolonged warfare from which this country has just emerged.
Page 343 - ... regular cavity, but usually makes numerous and circuitous sinuses in the interstices of the muscles, tendons, and fasciae, before it presents itself under the integuments. It is, therefore, less easy to evacuate its contents than those of an ordinary lumbar abscess ; and indeed it can seldom be emptied, without handling and compressing the limb, in order to press the matter out of the sinuses, in which it lodges. But this is often attended with very ill consequences. Inflammation takes place...
Page 479 - ... however short a time a battalion or a corps rested in one place, a regimental hospital was established; indeed as...
Page 521 - But in former times they had not the attention paid to them, which would have been due even to inanimate machines of equal utility; for there seemed to be much more anxiety about preserving arms from rusting, and cordage from rotting, than about maintaining men in an effective state of health.
Page 530 - Waterloo, any proof of British nerves being unbraced by the habitual use of this beverage, and whether the physical and moral energies of our officers and men will not stand a comparison with those of their forefathers or of their enemies, neither of whom were drinkers of tea.
Page 163 - The method I have adopted consists in tying the vessels with fine silk ligatures and cutting off the ends as close to the knot as is consistent with its security. Thus, the foreign matter is reduced to the insignificant quantity which forms the noose actually surrounding the vessel, and the knot by which that noose is fastened. Of the silk, which I commonly employ, a portion sufficient to tie a large...
Page 337 - against the application of caustic to the skin of the groin do not hold good with respect to a seton in this situation. I was led to adopt this treatment some years ago, partly from observing that the skin of the groin is nearer to the hip-joint than the skin elsewhere; partly from an expectation (^though not a very confident one) that the making a seton over the trunk of the anterior crural nerve might be particularly calculated to relieve the pain referred to those parts to which the branches...
Page 81 - There is also one of 60lbs. weight spoken of in the History of the Royal Academy of Sciences of Paris, for the year 1711.
Page 339 - ... the like good effects ; but these cases have borne only a small proportion to those in which it has succeeded. On the whole, I am led to conclude that, where the pain is very severe, the seton in the groin is more calculated to afford immediate relief than the caustic issue; but that it is not equally efficacious in checking the progress of the disease as in lessening the violence of its symptoms ; and that the caustic issue can be better depended on for the production of a cure.