Robley Dunglison
Published: 2018-02-27
Total Pages: 268
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Excerpt from The American Medical Intelligencer, Vol. 1: A Concentrated Record of Medical Science and Literature; July, 1841, to July, 1842 Having seen in your work upon New Remedies, published some time since in the Library, an article upon the beneficial effects derived from inoculation with morphia in the treatment of local diseases, I determined to make a trial of the plan in local rheumatism, an affection which I have fre quently found great difficulty in managing. I was not long afterward called to treat an obstinate rheumatic affection of the knee-joint, which had resisted the usual general and local means. One quarter of a grain of the sulphate Of morphia was inserted, by means of punctures, in the skin over the affected part, twice a day for two days, with the most marked and satisfactory results. The patient, who for two weeks previous had suffered extreme pain upon the slightest motion of the limb, was, at the expiration of this period, able to walk with slight inconvenience, and upon the third day, threw aside the crutch with which he had before hobbled across his room. Friction with stramonium ointment, two or three times repeated during the fourth day, removed all remaining disease in the affected part. The next case was a rheumatism of the wrist, in which no previous treat ment had been practised. In this case, which was recent, two applications of the morphia, upon two succeeding days, so effectually removed the pain and tenderness, as to allow of the free use of the hand on the third day. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.