GUNSED D WOUNDS. 
begi s to rife, are sie beit aD, that I knew of in in- 
eart labours lefs, and fimple circulation 
goes on more freely ; the other gives to the bloo at 
which makes Ly lefs irritating, mz he blood-veffels do ° 
hi ce, and gives to the nerves their proper 
fenfations, which takes off the fever.’ 
flammation, &c. p. 563. 
_To many, as well as ourfelves, this eulogium on bark may 
appear to extend vohen the limits of truth. We have never 
feen the propriety 0 
renowned me- 
Mr. Hunter, that bark is 
See: many cafes of Refainion.< attended with de- 
bility ; and that it is particularly Seve in numerous 
gunth ude where the obiges tt to fupport the contti- 
tation, and improve the tone of the eee criticifms 
on the abfurd way in which bark is Mat! ee vnoaly BNE 
teehee the neice Gangs ay 
n inflammat t ohne the feverit 
of the. pain wilt often Saeed the exhibit ibition of opium ; But 
+ = ee ee fgeenae he ay that this medicine 
J relie in 
Sabir” th have ae ceria emptied by bleeding. 
When it oe ge fe matt Be after ee Ne cr great ecg 
ven 
at all; 
fever #4 "reltleffne!s uF ie 
ovilles ad iled us to ae tg = or fecond 
ds ogee draught. P. 137. ¢ 
i = tak the patient is troubled with fGaritigh and etait, 
relief muft be fought for in the adminiftration of fuc 
dicines as s faline draughts, camphor, caftor, mufk, Se. sad 
" pantot wounds, attended with true pie egmonous in- 
ation, M. Chevalier, after deliverin is fentiments on 
preci. My ae a the ae iiion o nee paitt and 
Ber fcke ‘means are to ates ‘to- 
cafional purges, and a} 
“ee a of bread 
woos Be meal, * 
i 
curbitz vee pont of ig in & 
ws. through which the patient has any chance of efcapinc, 
Hunter on the In-, 
es of inflammation b 
regimen ftriétly anti- 
muft be directed to fupport ie as the only door of hope 
The ane cafe will fore be marked by the tume- 
tion and rednefs of the part becoming ed 2 or 
aia. diffufed, and the pulfe becoming more ' frequent, 
but lefs full and —. mg. There wil! be much thin <lilhange 
from the fore if the orifice allows of its exit; and the 
of which the patient complains, is generally a violent le 
and inexpreflible heayinefs in the paxt, with lefs pau» 
than takes place in phlegmo 
ere a faline mixture, ‘oined with camphor or aromatic 
ie st or a mixture of antimonial wine and tinGure of 
opium, | or, in other cafes, the deco¢tion of ne with aqua 
ammoniz Feats or other medicines of a fimilar 
e 
uarding 
diet. de debility on the sr will be che iets" 
py heads 
made with the faa. or, in other initances, the afe ot pe or 
{pirit, or the embrocation (compofed of equal ey of fpirit 
of wine, aqua ammoniz acetate, and water) will Hi 
eligible. hen thefe cannot be obtained, other remedies, 
keeping the fame bts in view, muft be employed. 
** But,” fays M. Chevalier, ** where the powers 
ture are flagging ; the pulfe becoming fmall, fredvdat or 
irregular ; the tongue dry and brown, or the bowels lax; 
the part inflamed veficating, or becoming livid 5 wile 
be more attended ene e charaGers of eryfipelas only, 
of cok wine, brandy y; {pices, anc - 
, 
ay 
wt 
ied. 
* If the ftomach, i in 
medicine, advantage 1 
warmer 
pices; fuch, f 
i cafe reje&ts ordinary. oe 
=a be ones from t 
a oes of which ma 
ho ae with 
ours. . 
one of opi 
have the ha her 
clarae the Cuan Chevalier en Gunfhot Weundac fe. 
¢ 3. 
Such is the the kind of pees which this getio recom- 
cs wound in ig. ‘inflamed and . te o 2 S ores 
wo an haps! his plan is not materially different from 
og ian aig us Se application of 
Gace embrocations to the 
as we have our fe . 
treatment of cates oF mortifi 
to mention, fag 4! ave, in a 
verted, both on the Sea. of eke tagical ftimulants, and 
1¢ irrational a eB ich bark is qed 
ae eee 
& ora F a * oF ake. ee | 
i 23 wounds in t tate fi uration, For the § 
Eee ¥S. ae matter fae sa thy so 
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