On a new and successful treatment for febrile and other diseases, through the medium of the cutaneous surface. Illustrated with cases / [William Taylor].

  • Taylor, William, active 1850.
Date:
1850
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Credit: On a new and successful treatment for febrile and other diseases, through the medium of the cutaneous surface. Illustrated with cases / [William Taylor]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    self, an invaluable method of subjugating fevers will spread through the community. A circumstance which has materially influenced me in publishing my plan of treatment, is the ap- at the court of Hanover, wherein is advocated a new mode of treating scarlatina by cutaneous induc- tion, which the author says “ materially shortens the duration of the disease, and checks all infec- tion at the end of the third or fourth day.” I was, as may be easily imagined, very anxious to show that Dr. Schneeman’s plan, which I had pursued for the last twelve years, was not new in England, though it might be a great novelty in Germany. As far back as 1829, I had repeatedly observed that persons admitted into the receiving ward at the workhouse, for the purpose of being cured of itch, were sometimes also suffering from fever in its different forms and stages. The treat- ment usually adopted was the warm bath, and the compound sulphur ointment; and when the patients were cured of the itch, I generally found, where the rubbing had not produced excoriation on the skin, that the fever also had frequently dis- appeared. An alterative, with saline medicine, which was usually administered, had the credit B2 : ;