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Show H56 Other means against in animation, quaintance with the relation of the nervous influence to the movements of the arterial system and to the production ofheat is a desideratum, which demands more knowledge, per- spicacity and genius than have hitherto perhaps been combined in any mortal. And from what sufferings yet in other men must his science spring! Other means against inflammation? It is always in some measure disagreeable and sometimes hazardous to act the part of the butcher in the sick chamber: and one cannot help looking anxiously round among the prospects of medicine for a resource more eligible as less debilitating than blood-letting. I think it indeed perfectly just that he who,‘/i‘0m the [0‘66 (fezy)e)‘iiizc'lzt, quits an approved for an uncen tain practice, should suffer the full penalty 01" the Egyptian law against medical innovation; as I would consign to the pillory the wretch: aho out of'regard to his character, that is, t0 for a state that requires the lancer. Nor, though this instrument should again become generally fashionable, let the practitioner in any case lay aside his circumspection. his 167 his fees; should follow the routine, when from constant experience he is sure that his patient will die under it, provided any, not inhuman, deviation would give his patient a chance. Two things may be held in contemplation as likely to become substitutes for bleeding in doubtful cases, And under the authority of slowiy progressive experience it may be nearly superseded by one or the other.---The first is the circular swing, as proposed by Dr. Darwin, which has been found to have such prodigious power in lowering the excitation of mania, and which would probably subdue many other inordinate actions of the system; whether appearing as ferocious delirium-or as violent action of' the hollow or solid muscles. Nor would its regulation be difficult. Gestation may possibly act in some cases as an infinitely lower degree of the same power. The objections founded by Dr. Currie upon a case or two, I can by no means consider as decisive. Dr. Jackson would condemn gestation with heat and fatigue. But a fever-patient may always be cool and will often feel recruited instead of fatigued while in movement, as many observations testify. The bad effects ot'exhaustion from heat or effort, are beyond contro~ vcrsv. A near relation of my printer havmg been over-pcrsuaded to quite her bed, while. weakaf‘ter fever, had an epilepsy in consequence. wom MI |