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Show ()0 Inflammation, how progressive. Ilflammation, how progressive. 1n inflammation, if I may observe it by the way, there seems to be a condition of parts, capable of throwing the system into consent before any local symptoms attract notice. The author was subject to troublesome pustules on the conjunctive of the eye. Many hours before he felt pain, a weeping took place; and he (lid not at first know what this portended. At last, when the weeping occurred, he could always see a red spot within the eyelid, where the pustule was beginning to form. Dumont, a man cook, had shivering and violent heat about midday, Aug. 4, 1757. Supposing this an attack ot'ague, he went to bed, and about midnight was awakened by excessive heat in the genitals. In the morning of Aug. 6, Dr.Varnier found the scrotum as hardas wood and as large as a child's 97‘ farction or even abscess in prospect, transient syncope is a slight evil. The rule that fire canstz'r‘utimz in such cases recovers more kindlyfl'om debility induced by blood-letting than by disease, affords great encouragement. And if (what should always be held in mind) the injury from injudicious bleeding can never be repaired, neither can the fatal progress of inflammation be stopped, where bleeding is injudiciously omitted. The pleurisy, which, as I am informed, was lately so destructive among our soldiers and sailors till the lancet was used with a boldness almost totally abandoned in this country, proves that it is not only American diseases and American constitutions that require such treatment-1 Many other facts prove the same.* When in the accurate dissections of phrenitic patients in head, though, on the 5th, M. Dufrainay had the Charité at Paris by Dr. Chardel, "all the bled the patient copiously four times. After .. bleedmg.s and purging .- . the patient more reco _ convolutions of the brain and the furrows are . . puriform .. , found covered WM] partly coaguu vered with some sphacelatiorim-Whether the pa» lated matter" - - - "a similar effusion roxysm ofthe 4th arose from the incipient local disease; or, the paroxysm arising from some other cause, inflammation was projected to H16 parts in question, had this fallen internally, the l_>leedings, frequent as they were, would hardly have saved life, perhaps for want of being carried far enough at once. Numerous facts shew -* Estate anni 1797, Faber ferrarius 26 annos natus, labor; multo assuetus, habitu corporis robusto, pulmonitide gravi cor« reptus, est in nosocomium Edinb.admissus. Pridie unciae Cir" citer 8 sanguiuis missae. Intra 3 ab admissioue ejus dies, unciae 98, quorum una vice 32, sine animi deliquio, maximo cum levamine symlomatum detractae fuereo that early in high inflammation, the lancet can scarce l :3 used too freely. paucosobtinuit~~~P/ze1an-Diss. ({e pn'r'rrrozzitz'zie. Edinb. 1795', p. '2... \Vith gangrene, in~ farction quo perfectam morbi In toto unciar evi demptae, solutionem intra dies. bet ween: - )vmm 9581" . |