An inaugural dissertation on the efficacy of certain external applications / by Henry Jackson.

  • Jackson, Henry, 1778-1840.
Date:
1802
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Credit: An inaugural dissertation on the efficacy of certain external applications / by Henry Jackson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    make a powerful impression on the system, sina- pisms should be resorted to. This conclusion I be- lieve acords with the experience of every medical practitioner. The importance of this class of medicines, is such, that they cannot be too particularly mentioned. The surprising effects of sinapisms in those states of the system, wherein the most powerful internal reme- dies have failed, and that have drawn from the suffer- ing patient an inquiry by what charm he had been relieved, will stamp them as a remedy of the first magnitude in the mind of every candid physician. Their utility has been particularly experienced in the convulsions of children from teething and from small-pox, in affections of the breast and stomach, and in what has been termed irregular gout. Int he ver- tigo and strangury that are the consequences' of a retrocession of the gout from the feet, they have af- forded almost immediate relief....and who will not assent to their usefulness in those low states of fever wherein a powerful stimulus is indicated? What would not the application of two large sinapisms ef- fect in preventing the recurrence of the intermittent fever? Blisters have been used for this purpose, and surely the more powerful influence of sinapisms would be proportionabjy more efficacious in destroy- ing that association on which the return of those dis- eases appears to depend. In fact exclusively of local considerations, should not sinapisms more frequently supplant the use of blisters, as their effects are more powerful, their immediate consequences to the parts do not prevent a second application, and they are not