GANGRENE. 
cold, is all ona fudden placed in a very warm fitaation, it is 
found that ee pare ieeee: nd floughing will fre- 
quently follow, rt becomes affected. us {welling, a 
livid difeolouration, ae intolerable darting pai 
In order to reftore w a part which is eahees in a fro- 
zen, or exceflively cold ftate, the fafeft plan is to rub it with 
{now or very cold water, until figns of fenfe and motion re- 
n we yen p- 
un, in confequence of 1. a having 
uddenly warmed, the mifchief often admits of being 
opped by immerfing the part in water of a temperature 
: i This method fhould 
a {phacelus, the 
local treatment, as lla as the general, is not attended with 
any particularity. An emollient aout ice is commonly the 
beit application, until the floughs have been detached, when 
the fores fhould be dreffed, according to the pees to be 
a in the doa Uicer and Wounp 
a gangre e has s proceeded to the Rate of {phacelus, 
fome praditionrs are in the habit of applying the aes 
ma cerevifie, or the cataplafma Be ae ea irt is 
pzepared by cee into the gr of ftrong bo. as much 
oatmeal as will make the cae ae a oe confiftence. The 
fecond is made by ftirring into an infufion of malt as much 
oatmeal as will render the mafs fufficiently thick, and then 
adding about a fpoonful of yeaft. ‘The charcoal aes 
we have aJready mentioned as a favourite application. Bark 
as alfo been t ie ara ufed, from a fuppofition or its being 
& Goel antifeptic 
We ma remark, “however, that the linfeed poultice is 
sold termina ate in 
apply 
cted. This ba sbarous etho 
from the ti cr 
faaantur ; 3 qui aa non fanantur, igne eee antur 5 led igne 
non curantur, hos exiftimare oportet in infanabiles.’’ 
rai sharin which Hippocrates left behind him, relate 
ned: by drawing the {piri 
igs aie it all humidities 
old 
nd ex 
length fallen into difrepute, ae never ie for eae 
a’ gangrene ee Critical Enquiry, &c. 
We have exprefied a cea el eee to.emollient ap- 
plications in cafes of mortification, and ‘have alfo taken no- 
of the charcoal, fermenting, and oat-meal poultices, as 
t 
Such was the language of de 
fometimes being proper. We may likewife enumerate the 
carrot and cicuta poultices as iat een 7 
ie i ferviceable in cafes of gangrenous ulcer: 
pra owever, of employing very Rimelating spol 
tions, we an refrain from declaring our decided difappro-. 
bation. It was with fome difguft that t we a the direc 
tions of am ofa writer and lecturer, when he fays, that 
“ the furrounding el may be? invigorate 
tion of alcohol, oil of he ntine— la 
theriaca Londinenfis, &c.’’ This p recept reminds 
the habit of a certain paditione, oS whenever he had a 
aia nt baa the fac 
it foam 
till continue to cae. (ome of our cee sOrari fee: ae is 
only nece 2 to add, with regard to topical ftimulants, in 
fes of 1 tification, that to all furgeons who hare thie 
bibed the fs tiples of their profeffioa, under the able 
Ie&turers t eat hofpitals of this metropolis, our 
admonition not to imitate {uch praCtice will be nee a Se 
The ancients knew, as well as the moderns, that 
ence, 
. were = 8 very anxious, that their invigorat- 
a mulating, warm application s fhould extend their ac- 
‘i on to the fubj acent Gan frome 
principally with this view that they u ufed to make deep inci- » 
fions and {carifications in the {phacelated part. The 
e quick, as the only means of 
and ne return G the place which 
they have qbendonee. 
not fay, that a furgeon can never have an oppor- 
tunity of cutting through a flough, and letting out tome 
ase hencagey making of incifions and fcarifications is ge~ 
ne ong and hurtful. 
nfefs.no ha 
touched, we co 
cations, is “c 
e has feen the gangrene ; 
of the tendo ni igi wounded. (See vol 
Since we place no confidence in the invigo 
topical janes we have no occafion to takea 
for extending their ation to the livin 
quently, do not fee the -utility of ar 
not fo prejudiced, however, that we e would not make d cut. 
caution not to injure the fubjacent living parts. 
ciples. which. led to the common practice of fearifications 
are 
