A letter to Sir Gilbert Blane, Bart. physician to the King, &c. &c. &c. from Sir Anthony Carlisle, surgeon extraordinary to His Majesty, &c. &c. 7c. On blisters, rubifacients and escharotics : giving an account of the employment of an instrument adapted to transmit a defined degree of heat, to effect those several purposes.

  • Carlisle, Anthony, Sir, 1768-1840.
Date:
1826
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Credit: A letter to Sir Gilbert Blane, Bart. physician to the King, &c. &c. &c. from Sir Anthony Carlisle, surgeon extraordinary to His Majesty, &c. &c. 7c. On blisters, rubifacients and escharotics : giving an account of the employment of an instrument adapted to transmit a defined degree of heat, to effect those several purposes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    influence, which flashes from the place of im- pression to the seat of consciousness, there producing passions which affect the whole frame;—or it may be reflected back by the moral agency of the mind. I should have felt degraded in my own esti- mation, if I had not first been fully assured that the method of blistering, which I now propose, is free from cruelty, and, under common cau- tions, not liable to so many evil consequences as the ordinary methods. The action of a Metallic substance, heated in boiling water, was first tried upon my own arm,—and al- though the instant pain was severe, the sum of distress was far below that which is occasioned by a blister of Cantharides. I have since employed the blisterer upon many patients, both women and men, selecting those who had lately been blistered with the Cantharides plaster; and they affirm, that the momentary endurance of the instrument is preferable to the former method, and, where a repetition of blistering has since been required, those patients ask for the quick process.