On Indigestion: Its Pathology, and Treatment by the Local Application of Uniform and Continuous Heat and Moisture; With an Account of an Improved Mode ... and Inflammatory Diseases (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Excerpt from On Indigestion: Its Pathology, and Treatment by the Local Application of Uniform and Continuous Heat and Moisture; With an Account of an Improved Mode of Applying Heat or Cold in Irritative and Inflammatory Diseases

It is a principal purpose of this publication to show that the dose of temperature (if the expression may be used) can be regulated with precision; and I conceive that the means which I have described for accomplishing this, will be as great an addition to the art of healing, with respect to one remedial measure of great power and excellence, as the invention of the steelyard, or other means of determining the quantity of substances, would have been with respect to either of the medicines men tioned, were it possible to conceive that its medical virtues could have been known before the art of weighing it, or otherwise apportioning its dose had been invented. For, excepting bloodletting, there is no remedy of greater efficacy amongst the measures directed against vascular excitement, than Heat and Cold, if their action be under perfect control; and the means which have accomplished this, have raised these agents from a very humble grade amongst auxiliary measures, to rank with remedies of the first class - with the lancet, -rriercury, antimony, and Opium.

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