A manual of hypodermatic medication : the treatment of diseases by the hypodermatic method. / by Roberts Bartholow.

Date:
1882
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    secondly, that localization was not necessary to benefit a given part; and, thirdly, that for certain reasons it was better not to localize,—the chief being: 1, the infliction of unnecessary pain; 2, the almost certain risk of irritating, thicken- ing, or inducing matter in the part from repeti- tion ; and, 8, it became evident that a large class of neuralgia would be excluded from this treat- ment if it was necessary to inject the neuralgic site.” Great praise must be awarded Mr. Hunter for his success in demonstrating these important conclusions, and for popularizing his method. His industry in collecting facts and presenting them to the profession was indefatigable. His views were perseveringly advanced, with an in- telligent appreciation of the nature and impor- tance of his facts. He read papers before soci- eties ; he published articles in the “ Medical Mirror,” “ Lancet,” “ Medical Times and Ga- zette,” and “ British and Foreign Medico-Chirur- gical Review;” he issued a pamphlet* containing all of his previous papers and some additional facts, and he enlisted, by personal effort, many of the physicians and surgeons of London in a trial of the new therapeutical expedient. It was thus, chiefly through the efforts of Mr. Hunter, that the method of Wood, previously * On the Speedy Relief of Pain and other Nervous Affec- tions by means of the Hypodermic Method. Churchill, Lon- don, 1805.