The hydropathic encyclopedia: a system of hydropathy and hygiene .. . ed too high. Those who have a clear ideaof the manner in which these ailments originate, will at once appreciatethe absurdity of the ordinary treatment with mechanical machinery andsurgical cauterization, by which many poor backs have been cruellytortured and many bodies permanently crippled. An extreme resultof the same cause is seen in the curvature, fig. 211. Scrofulous persons, from their greater frailty or laxity of organiza-tion, are peculiarly liable to lateral curvatures, when exposed to anycauses which debilitate th
The hydropathic encyclopedia: a system of hydropathy and hygiene .. . ed too high. Those who have a clear ideaof the manner in which these ailments originate, will at once appreciatethe absurdity of the ordinary treatment with mechanical machinery andsurgical cauterization, by which many poor backs have been cruellytortured and many bodies permanently crippled. An extreme resultof the same cause is seen in the curvature, fig. 211. Scrofulous persons, from their greater frailty or laxity of organiza-tion, are peculiarly liable to lateral curvatures, when exposed to anycauses which debilitate the muscular system, or throw the differentsets of muscles out of balance. In double curvatures the misposition of body is generally connectedwith causes which tend especially to debilitate the abdominal muscles,se constipation, hot drinks, feather beds, etc. Mercurialized Tongue.—This is both a cruel disease and a hor-rid deformity, as the accompanying representation will bear witnesstg. 212. and I introduce the subject in this place for the especia dut- Fig. •ALIVATIOX 8Kt 3TTRGERY. poses of protesting against its cause, and against the treatment whichthose physicians whose heaiing art creates the disease, recom-mended to cure it. This treatment consists in making long and deepincisions into the tongue with a scalpel. It is not strange that thosepractioners, whose remedies produce such consequences, should bethe poorest doctors in the world when those consequences themselvesrequire medication. Nothing will reduce this violent mercurial inflam-mation equal to the wet-sheet pack, so managed as to produce mod-erate but frequent perspiration. At the same time the bowels mustbe kept very free with tepid injections, the wet compress applied to theneck, the mouth frequently rinsed with cool but not very cold water,and sips of cool or cold water—as either is most agreeable to the patient—swallowed whenever the patient has the ability to swallow. Whenthe body is extremely
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