Elements of pathology and therapeutics : being the outlines of a work, intended to ascertain the nature, causes, and most efficacious modes of prevention and cure, of the greater number of the diseases incidental to the human frame / by Caleb Hillier Parry.

  • Parry, Caleb Hillier, 1755-1822.
Date:
1815
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    pression, the power of which, accident has occa- sionally shewn, and contracted views have directed only to certain conditions of the in- flammatory state. They are also mitigated or cured by whatever diminishes the action of the heart'; as rest, especially in the horizontal posture; mental calmness; early hours; the abstraction of heat by the external application of cold air, cold water, ice, &c. or in form of drink; by certain medicines called Sedative; by spontaneous or artificial evacuations, as of feces, and more especially of blood; and by every thing which produces a tendency to syncope. Lastly, they may be mitigated or cured by whatever intercepts or diminishes the flow of blood in the particular arteries leading to the affected part. This may be effected by various spontaneous changes of determination, constituting the conversions before stated They may also be relieved by temporary mechanical compression of the arteries supplying the part, as I have long ago stated in whitloe, gout,* and, according to Mr. Kellie, may h*> cured by that process continued for a sufficient length of time by the tourniquet. * Memoirs of the Medical Society of London, vol. iii. p. 77. G 2