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Excerpt from The Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal, 1827, Vol. 28: Exhibiting a Concise View of the Latest and Most Important Discoveries in Medicine, Surgery, and Pharmacy When there was a determination of blood to the head, the affusion of cold water on the head and shoulders while the pa, tient remained in the bath, was frequently of great service in relieving the headach, and checking the progress of the fever; but, in accordance with what I have seen, the affusion of cold water over the whole body, on account of the invariable affection of the stomach, and frequent implication of other abdominal viscera, was quite inadmissible. Even the affusion of cold water on the head and shoulders was had recourse to with caution, and was always performed while the patients were in the bath for otherwise, by reason of the tendency it had to constrict the vessels on the surface of the body, it annihilated the ordinary good effects of the warm bath. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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• Full title: The Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal, 1827, Vol. 28
• Subtitle: Exhibiting a Concise View of the Latest and Most Important Discoveries in Medicine, Surgery, and Pharmacy (Classic Reprint)
• Author: Unknown Author
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 484
• EAN: 9781334702242
• ISBN: 1334702241
• ID: 15659862
• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Weight: 643 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 25 mm
• Date of publishing: 23. December 2016

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