Extracts from a work on counter-irritation, its principles and practice, illustrated by one hundred cases of the most painful and important diseases effectually cured by external applications - Softcover
Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1839 Excerpt: ...latter, and so to reader it at least perfectly harmless. In all this we succeeded but imperfectly. The attacks were at times so capriciously frequent, and at others so unaccountably apart, that no relation could be established between the curative means employed and their result, with the view of forming a correct opinion as to any success already obtained or hereafter to be expected. The attacks came on at night during sleep, as well as in the daytime; and the patient would, on their first coming on, invariably fall to the ground, if she was standing at the time and alone,--a circumstance of a very rare occurrence indeed, owing to the unceasing and solicitous care bestowed by two most affectionate parents upon their amiable daughter. Years rolled on in this manner, and the lady grew to womanhood, without being able to produce herself into society, owing to the incessant apprehension of an attack occurring in public. Having had the constant management of the case from the first, and having declared my deliberate opinion respecting its final issue, to which I steadily adhered,--I never allowed myself to swerve from the line of practice to be pursued. At the same time, great allowance and deference being due to the anxiety and painful impatience of parents, I took care never to stand in the way of any new and safe trial of remedies which were proposed by others, whether professional or domestic; and our patient went through not a few of them in the course of some years, without any material benefit. It was at last determined to place her under the persevering x action of those remedial agents on which I had from the first stated that I would rely, and could venture to promise a cure; and it is scarcely necessary after this to add, that counter-irritation was ...
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