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Show Tempera lare of the body. V to be kept applied to the head, when it is hot and bility. Thus great heat and great cold cure burns equally, but on opposite principles. In fever or the vascular action strong. To suppose this an indifferent measure, because the scalp from habit deep-seatedinflammation, or in both combined, would not a blister, that should concentrate sus- is less sensible than other parts, Itake to be an ingenious mistake. In nervous headache, blood- letting though strongly indicated, has sometimes disappointed me; cold scarcely ever, except when there was a transfer of susceptibility to the ceptibility on an indifferent external part, be very advisable? Muriate of lime dissolved in acid, I suppose, would act sufficiently through thin glass-This idea of blistering by cold may turn out a mere whim-Of cold, as produced by the '_ _ I r . i L , Mullah un/ Is. I". 'r "51 t , ammuniakfl rrwrmmrm t ,.« - - . l restored to life, but he remained a valetudinarian. It was afterwards known that he had swallowed suppose, increase of susceptibility, acted upou by the ordinary stimuli, whereas acrid substances act from excessive stimulation on ordinary suscepti- melting of ice and the evaporation of ether,I have had successful experience in the most dan- gerous phlegmasiae and in convulsive diseases. Either method is more convenient sometimes than immersion, and either is applicable to fever. Evaporation may be kept up by diluted alcohol. With a View to the terrible irritability of the stomach in some fevers, it is worth while to mention, that to a patient, insensible, violently convulsed, and retching dreadfully, Dr. J05. an excessive dose of opium. body. Cold ought always Of two sisters, free bleeding for hot head- ache was repeatedly practised on one without rclief, which cold immediately afforded. The other also applied spring water to her hot and throbbing head. Universal chill. The same on several trials. I suggested cold to the head dur- ing the tepid bath. The bath felt agreeable, but an immediate chill of the immersed body fol- lowed the first touch of the cold: and this, when the bath was raised to 100°. Such chill is some- times an impediment to the immersion of the hands in cold water during the hot period of hectic. But in idiopathic fever I have always Frank gave strong emetics on a suspicion of seen present and continued benefit from cooling poison,--for the origin of the symptoms was quite the hot head. unknown. The case growing more desperate, the body was wrapped in flannel, and this wetted Nor has it required above a fiftieth part ofthe eyes of Argus to perceive, when to suspend the application. Dr. Wright and Dr. Currie have been can- with aether {or a day and half. The pa ient was didly anxious to do justice to their predecesrestored --wz~:-z._WV. produced by frozen mercury. The cause is, I 217 .mm- «m . '1' 16 sors Vlthl MOS |