A treatise on the effects and various preparations of lead, particularly of the extract of Saturn, for different chirurgical disorders / translated from the French of Mr. Goulard, Surgeon-Major to the Royal and Military Hospital at Montpellier.

  • Goulard, Mr. (Thomas)
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1784
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    contrary, frequently with violent ones. This difference, in the violence of the fymptoms, merits all the attention of the practitioner; feeing it is principally upon that he ought to eftablifh his prognoftic and plan of cure. -What general dlforder are not the principal ceconomical and animal functions thrown into, by an inflammation of an aponeurofis, or of a tendon ? Nay, convulfions, faintings, even death itfelf, are but too often the fatal confequences. What is not to be appre- hended from an inflammation which tends to a mortification ; efpecially if deeply lodged in the internal parts, or if it attacks a bad fubject? Thefe confiderations, and a thoufand others, of which it is not my intention to give a detail in this work, ought to make the furgeon fen- fible, how very neceffary it is for him to be well acquainted with the remedies that are proper for the fubduing of inflammations. Thefe very remedies are in every one's hands; and the moft ignorant may bluflr, not to be acquainted with them.' But do they deferve thofe prailes, and that degree of con- fidence, which are beftowed upon them ? This is a queftion which their effects alone can de- cide. Now it is very certain, and univerfally ac- knowledged by men of fenfe, that the effeds of the external applications ufually prefcribed for inflammations, often difappoint our ex- pectation. Sometimes they confift of olea- ginous and greafy fubftances3 which fluff up 5 the