Observations on gangrenes and mortifications, accompanied with, or occasioned by, convulsive spasms, or arising from local injury, producing irritation / by Charles White.

Date:
1790
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Credit: Observations on gangrenes and mortifications, accompanied with, or occasioned by, convulsive spasms, or arising from local injury, producing irritation / by Charles White. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    fpecies of a diforder, ranged under one head, will not, at all times and in all cafes, be cured by one and the fame medicine, though curable by others. The particular fpecies of mortification, which is the fubjed of this pamphlet, is that accompanied with, or occafioned by, convulfive fpafms, or arifing from local injury, producing irritation, which is alfo of the fpafmodic kind. The remedy, I have to lay before the public, is a large and frequently repeated dole of muik and fait of hartfhorn, the ufe of which, like that of opium by Mr. Pott, I difeovered rather unexpectedly and by accident. Mulk and the volatile alkali, I muft allow, have been given before my time; but I do not find that they have, generally, been given in futficient quantities, or ever adminiilered in this fpecies of mortification ; fo that the full extent of their virtues, especially in this complaint, had not been before ob- ferved or afeertained. Mulk, from the high price it bears, is very liable to frequent adulterations, which