An essay on the medicinal properties of factitious airs. With an appendix, on the nature of blood / by Tiberius Cavallo.

  • Cavallo Tiberius, 1749-1809.
Date:
1798
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Credit: An essay on the medicinal properties of factitious airs. With an appendix, on the nature of blood / by Tiberius Cavallo. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    a ( 38 ] In general this treatment, upon delicate nervous confutations, is as efficacious as the other, viz. the throwing the fluid with a wooden point, is to ordinary con- ftitutions. In feveral cafes, efpecially of open fores, the eledtric fluid iffuing out of a wooden polpt has conftantly increafed the pain, and even enlarged the fore j whereas the fluid iffuing out of the metal point has effectually diminifhed both. The flrearn ifluing out of a wooden point may be directed towards the eyes of the patient, without any apprehenfion of hurting him; in which cafe the operator fhould keep the eye-lid open with one hand. Indeed there might be feme cafes, though I feldom heard of any, in which this treatment may be thought to be too ftrong 5 then the metal point only may be ufed. The ftream iffuing both out of the wooden and of the metal point, adts even through the cloaths, if they are not too thick; hence it may be ufed without in- commoding the patient 5 but when it is convenient