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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: vessels, immediately over the very nerves of the teeth, should be scarified and divided, as you would divide the vessels of the conjunctiva in inflammation of that membrane. ' Now, whilst'there is fever or restlessness, or ten3ency to spasm or convulsion, this local blood letting should be repeated daily, and in urgent cases even twice a day. I would here repeat my maxim : Better do this one hundred times unnecessarily than have one single fit from the neglect of so trifling an operation. A skilful person does it in a minute, and in a minute often prevents a mostseriousattack an attack which may cripple the mind or limbs, or even take the life of our little patient, if frequently repeated. There is, in fact, no comparison between lhe means' and ihc end, the one so trifling, the other so momentous.' London Lancet. Comparison of Salicine. with Quinine in the treatment of Intermittent Fffaer. Our readers have already, been informed that the Surgeon General of the United States Army has issued an order to the medical corps, to give a fair trial to salacine, (the ext. of willow bark,) in the treatment of fevers. Dr. E D. Fenner, one of the editors of the New Orleans Medical and'Surgical Journal, and one of the physicians to the Charity Hospital of that city, has just concluded his experiments with this article. From the last number of this Journal, we make the following extract: Thus have I given careful observations, of the effects of salicine in twenty cases of intermittent fever, taken promiscuously, and all occurring within a short period. I had commenced its use in two other cases, and would willingly have reported a much larger number, but desisted on account of the expense of the remedy. Perhaps no place in the world presents greater advantages for observations upon...
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