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Show same proceeding. Tempera tare In erysipelas I have expe« rienced immediate ease and rapid recovery from cold water so employed. "Mow m0 '1 t But I have not yet. happened to use it in erysipe'las of the face. It has been said that aqueous applications have proved hurtful in erysipelas ; I suppose because they have not been used effectually to destroy the tendency to generate excessive heat. They must greatly increase the evil if reaction be per~ mitted.----To prevent metastasis, in burns, stings, and erysipelas alike I give some cordial while the application of cold is in use. I have done this even in sprains for the patient's comfort. I generally find a little ginger sufficient, but in erysipelas I have used the bark according to the excellent plan of Dr. G. Fordyce. Thus suffering ceases when treatment begins. I have never dared to employ cold freely in gout, because several patients, very capable of self-observation, have given me accounts, which I could not dis» believe, of permanent injury sustained from the pracrice. And some were in the flower of life; one labouring under his first fit. Nor has any satisfactory criterion yet been offered by which we may distinguish when it is safe. I should think however that the danger would be less, if the stomach were kept in moderate activity all the time. Chance, the good genius of the healing art, has frequently exhibited the effects of the 6071tinned 9f the body. tinned application of cold. 211 Since the Psycho- lusz'a, we have enough of authentic cures in cir- cumstances almost desperate to fill a volume. Dr. Currie speaks of one, who in his delirium jumped into the sea-continued there 20 minutes, was taken up calm, and speedily recovered. In hot countries, he observes that fevers should be combated not merely by cold anusion, but by immersion. I have not met with a stronger confirmation than in the paper from which the interesting passage at the head of this section is taken. . During the prevalence of a malignant fever, Dominique, a, peasant, 42, had chills, biting heat, sickness, anxiety, prostratien of strength, headache, eyes red, drowsiness interrupted by frightful dreams and inward cold-fever (pulse) not corresponding in violence to the other symp- toms. Apprehensive of congestion in the head, XVI. Goirand bled him, but syncope obliged him to close the vein~on the 8th day, an alarm that he was dying-was after delirium, he had fainted and Iain some moments without sign of life. His friends grew intractable-thc delirium increased to violent phrenzy. Qtst day, locked jaw with general convulsions of the limbs, pulse tense, intermitting-next day, some remission. 23d, stupor followed by furious delirium-two women being unable to resist him, the patient jumps out at the window, makes for water, 100 N 2 paces ~y---W~ ‘m'wm-ar!" ~: ‘2 I O |