... bottles. LEECHES. Action, application and effects. Salt makes leech loosen its hold. HYPODERMIC MEDICATION. Syringe: structure and method of use. Therapy and theory of action. INTRAVENOUS. Methods; applications; dangers. EXERCISE No. ...

... of local inflammation. By premising general 188 STOKES'S THEORY AND PRACTICE. bleeding, leeching, and purgatives, you give the mercury an oppor- ... other circumstances, then must recourse be had to leeching, or what is still ... of the philosophy of the theory laid down for bleeding in the cold, or ...

... practice, the usual method was applied, as, bleeding, leeching, purging, vomiting, &c.; but in theory, explanations were given, about the effects of these ...

... and by the very prompt good effects of leeching, blistering, &c. As to this theory, it is enough to say that no pressure ...

... value in the treatment of ileitis. 76 STOKES’S THEORY AND PRACTICE OF MEDICINE. In this way by leeching, mild laxatives, prescribing mercury with chalk, and compound ...

... have made of the resulting phenomena, whether of leeching or of counter-irrita- tion, through the medium of the nervous system, will remain the only intelligible theory (§ 893 a, c, 905 a, 915-924, 942 ...

... marrow. The horrid conglomeration of remedies—blistering, cupping, leeching, bleeding, mercurializing, antiphlogisticating, and alcoholizing—has been as disastrous to the patients as the theory is nonsensical in medical science. Fever, Stercoral.—Fever ...

... inflamed (Bennet), correction of uterine dis- placements (Hewitt), leeching the cervix (Clay), digital dilatation of the cervical canal (Copeman). Without adopting Graily Hewitt's theory of the etiology of the disorder, it is ...

... marrow. The horrid conglomeration of remedies—blistering, cupping, leeching, bleeding, mercurializing, antiphlogisticating, and alcoholizing—has been as disastrous to the patients as the theory is nonsensical in medical science. Fever, Stercoral.—Fever ...

... inflamed (Bennet), correction of ute- rine displacements (Hewitt), leeching the cervix (Clay), digital dila- tation of the cervical canal (Copeman). Without adopting Graily Hewitt's theory of the etiology of the disorder, it is ...