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and, as might naturally be supposed, that it 

 prevents traumatic tetanus. He adds, that the 

 warm bath increases the action of the skin, and 

 all the other secretions, by sympathy, (pp. 1 78, 

 193.) 



But Thomson and Macartney are not the only 

 practitioners who have given their testimony in 

 favour of external warmth in the treatment of 

 inflammation. In the Archives Generates de 

 Medicine for October, 1835, there is an article on 

 the influence of heated air on wounds and ulcers, 

 by M. Jules Guyot, the substance of which he 

 has reduced to the following propositions : 



1 . " That wounds have always healed more 

 rapidly when surrounded by air above 85 with- 

 out dressing, than with or without dressing at 

 lower temperatures : 



2. That some wounds have healed in a heated 

 atmosphere, which have not done so at ordinary 

 temperatures : 



3. That in the former state, the majority of 

 wounds healed without inflammation or suppura- 

 tion, but not in the latter : 



4. That wounds have ceased to suppurate when 

 exposed to heat, and undergone the same healing' 

 process as fresh wounds: 



5. That an ulcer will heal without any other 

 local application than an increased temperature : 



6. That heated air has caused the formation of 

 a large cicatrix, in forty-eight hours, over an 



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