An inaugural essay on blisters : submitted to the examination of the Rev. John Ewing, S.T.P. provost ; the trustees & medical faculty, of the University of Pennsylvania, on the sixth day of June, 1799, for the degree of Doctor of Medicine / by Robert J. King, of Maryland, member of the Philadelphia Chemical Society.

  • King, Robert J.
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1799
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Credit: An inaugural essay on blisters : submitted to the examination of the Rev. John Ewing, S.T.P. provost ; the trustees & medical faculty, of the University of Pennsylvania, on the sixth day of June, 1799, for the degree of Doctor of Medicine / by Robert J. King, of Maryland, member of the Philadelphia Chemical Society. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    IO fion, I fhall proceed to mention their mode of ope- ration. Firft, They are powerfully ftimulant. We infer this, from the increafed force and frequency which is produced in the pulfe, and from the great de- termination of blood to the part, which is in con- tad with the flies, occafioning inflammation and effufion. Secondly, The evacuation which they produce, often counterbalances the effects of their ftimulat- ing power: hence, their fervice in the hydropic ftate of fever, and in local inflammation and con- geftion. Thirdly, The new impreflion which they make is frequently greater than that of the difeafe ; and as no two impreflions of unequal force can exift at the fame time, the weaker yields to the ftronger. —We have this illuftrated in their operation in di- arrhea, rheumatifm, &c< And fourthly, When the local morbid action which they create is not violent enough in degree, to tranflate the difeafe, the irritation which they produce, when applied to the extremities, gives a centrifugal determination to the difeafe ; thereby faving parts efTential to life; as in the yellow fever, gout, &c.