Volume 2

Dissertations on inflammation / [John Burns].

  • Burns, John, 1774-1850.
Date:
1800
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Credit: Dissertations on inflammation / [John Burns]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ufe the fermenting poultice, inftead of the air already extricated. Digitalis, applied either in poultices or infufion, has been faid to abate the pain, and meliorate the appearance of the fore ; but, in this refpedl, it feems to be very much on a level with cicuta. / Tar ointment, gaftric juice, abforbent powders, and many other applications, w'hich it is unnecelTary to enumerate, have been propofed ; but as their utility is by no means evinced, I fhall not de- tain the reader with ^ny remarks upon them. Caustic, and cfcharotic preparations, i * * have been already confidered. Ur ON the whole, when the ulcer does not admit of being extirpated, all which 3^ VOL. II