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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    *7 Our author, alfo, in his account of the bilious yellow fever, as it appeared in the fummer and au- tumn of 1780, fpeaks of the efficacy of blifters in the following manner : if the fever continued be- yond the third or fourth day, without an intermif- fion, I always had recourfe to blifters. Thofe which were applied to the neck, and behind the ears, produced the moft immediate good effects. They feldom failed of producing an intermiffion in the fever, the day after they were applied. Where delirium or coma attended, I applied a blifter to the neck the firft day of the diforder. Lind ob- serves, that whenever a hot fit of an intermittent was protracted to an unufual length, and accompa- nied with alarming fymptoms, he applied a blifter to the back with evident advantage. * Where there is no delirium, or confiderable pain in the head, it will be more proper to apply them to the wrifts, as they can be better confined, and drefled with more convenience; and their efficacy is equally as fpeedy and certain, as when applied to the neck or back. The Inteftinal ftate of fever, feldom appears without indicating the application of blifters. The fympathy or intimate connection, which is fo often manifeft between the furface of the body, and the * Lind on hot climates, page 290. c