Clinical experiments, histories, and dissections / by Francis Home, M.D., one of his Majesty's physicians, fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, and professor of materia medica in the University of Edinburgh.

  • Home, Francis, 1719-1813.
Date:
1782
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Credit: Clinical experiments, histories, and dissections / by Francis Home, M.D., one of his Majesty's physicians, fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, and professor of materia medica in the University of Edinburgh. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Among the many difadvantages of blis- ters, flrangury is none of the leafl. I find it eafy, however, to prevent this effect; fo that I feldom or never obferve a flrangury following a blifter. Dr. Greenfield was the firfl who, in the beginning of this century, difcovered, that camphor had a power of correcting this effect of cantha- rides. vSome, however, have doubted this quality. I tried, many years ago, cam- phor rubbed on bliflers, found it to anfwer, and have always ufed it with the greatefl fuccefs. I once removed, fuddenly, a flran- gury in a typhus, by rubbing campho- rated oil on the ancles. Notwithstand- ing the advantage which rubbing a little powdered camphor on the plaifler has in preventing one of its uneafy effects, yet I believe it is fcarcely, if at all, ufed. More trufl is put in great quantities of emulfion, and the like, which often load the ftomach too much, relax it, and increafe the general debility. Bliflers, therefore, appear to be of little ufein curing the typhus; yet they are of the greatefl utility in relieving the fevere head- ach, a troublelbme fymptom which always attends