Treatment of Vascular Diseases, 189 



show how glaringly deficient the published report of a late 

 naturalist is, (who was employed by Government in these 

 Provinces) when he stated that the primitive formation was 

 lost on the coast some distance below this place. 



Amherst : bth September, 1847. 



Remarks on the treatment of certain Vascular Diseases. By 

 Thomas A. Wise, m. d. 



In the first volume of the Journal of Medical Science* a 

 number of examples are detailed of a peculiar change pro- 

 duced in the blood, by causes which increase its vitality, 

 beyond that degree in which it is contained in its fluid state. 

 This change in the blood is termed its consolidation, in con- 

 tradistinction to the state of coagulation, and affords an expla- 

 nation of some of those pathological conditions, concerning 

 the nature of which there is still a considerable difference of 

 opinion. As a necessary result of such premises, I supposed 

 the same principle might be applied, with great advantage, 

 in the cure of some varieties of the most fatal class of vascu- 

 lar diseases, and it is the object of the present Essay to 

 relate my experience on that important subject. I propose, 

 as I go on, to intersperse with my observations on this 

 topic, a few remarks on the modifications which it appears to 

 me, the common treatment of erectile, and other vascular 

 tumours and aneurisms, will admit of. 



Section I. 



Erectile and other vascular tumours. 



Erectile tumours being principally made up of enlarged 

 veins, by the application of an irritating substance, such as a 

 blister or the like, and by keeping up the irritation, a con- 



* Calcutta, 1834. See particularly pages 154, 193, 247, 325, 406, &c. 



