Weekly national intelligencer., 1854-11-25


twice. Several of the patients Immediately after
wards from their BEDS which they had long been
fined In most Of chronic rheumatism the remedy
has been equally successfu and this account of the
frequency OF the disease is of its most valuable ap
pcations seaica has generally yielded to it, but by
no easily In acute rheumatism the local in
fammation of the joints is by this means, invariably and
completely relieved and that portion of the accomIfny-
ing fever thence arising is consequently removed Yhe
disease, thus treated will painless course Of ePut
weeks duration. In case Of about dozen in
congelaon almost exclusively employed, there
extension of inflammation to the hearts and am per-
suaded that the best plan of preventing this subdue
the inflammation Of the joints from which it generally
originates did not the remedy in where the
heart already affected though have since learned
that congeation is employed in the hospital at Vienna
(where il was introduced years ago by Dr. Waters,
of Chester) application to the chest in rheumatic
cards That this affection of the heart would occasion
ally during the treatment Of acute rheumatism by
congeaton is very probable because il often arises as
the affection Of the joint does from morbid condi-
ton of the blood which the remedy have
trol and that such occurrence in the present feeling
the subject would be called metastasis from cold is
very certain but am convinced that IL will yet be ac
knowledgcd though probably after many years. that this
affection would be much decreased in frequency by the
adoption of any capable of quickly subdung the
accompanying artsrts When It s considered what an
immense Of eventual mischief arises from the
ganc disease of the heart that under the
modes Of treating rheumatic fever say nothing OF the
patients present suerngs and tedious confinement it is
be amented that pre)udce should oppose any measure
greater promise In rheumatic gout the relief has been
marked from congelation in lumbago In ordinary
Inflammation Of the joints it has also been exceedingly
useful 0phthaia has been mmediately cured BY keep
ing the rigorifc in with the gentycosed eysid
for three or four minutes Gandular Inflammation in the
neck and groin yield to high degree of cold with eqnal
facility have been told that in orchits its beneficial
operation is immediate and have little doubt that, from
its coseness to the surface, the urethral inflammation
causing orchits wonld be quickly suppressed Congea
ton has often at converted irritable into heal
ing ulcer though sometimes the patient has complained
of the pain Of the operation is probable that had the
salt in the mixture been prevented from coming in con-
with the irritable surface this would have been in
great degree prevented Certain acute inammatory af
fections Of the skin equally under its influence as
eryspeas eczema, impetgc. It has not often failed in
prurgo but in only of psoriasis has it appeared
to be Of service Painful nodes at relieved by
this and the inflammation subdued. have only
used congelaon in carbuncle apsthehc previously
cutting it. but il is probable Judging from its effects
in boils) that the incson might have been dis
pensed with has been mentioned to me that severe cold
has been employed with the view in whtow Of which
is certainly sufficient cure. The Inflammation fol-
lowing sprains contusons, and other similar injuries i
perfectly under its influence aud the may be said
Of burns. In Of my publications on the subject
have related the excellent and speedy effect OF congea
ton in of meningitis and also in case OF pertonl-
It's have not had the opportunity Of trying it in other
affections of this description Headache ofvarous kinds
has at yielded to the application, for minute, of
frigorfc the painful part and in neuralgia affect
ing the side it has generally proved eicacous In neu-
ga attacking the face and other parts it has often
ceeded and often failed If the seat Of the disease be
deep in the BRAIN little be hoped from this remedy
although there few obstinate cases Of neuralgia in
which it does not deserve trial. Toohache is general-
y at once relieved by if properly applied and there is
remedy for the painful affection OF the mouth caused
by mercury comparable to congelation spoonful OF
dissolvng ice and salt is repeatedly put into the mouth
until becomes benumbed In of severe scurvy
Of the gums where feared loss of the teeth extensive
congelation of gums immediately arrested the disease
In many the diseases just enumerated the
Of the is remarkable as its certainty In military
and hospital practice this advantage is very prominent
In cancer the effects of congeaton have been various
From my own experience and that Of others think that
its early stages and when from its size the tumor can
be thoroughly brought under the influence OF the remedy
it will be cured by it. In oil stages the progress OF can
will be arrested retarded and the pain accompany
ing it assuaged The difficulty in advanced cases is to
sufficient degree of cold to pervade the tumor
The French translator Of recent paper OF mine on the
subject Union Medicae for May) thinks that the fre
quent Of cysts in tumors may ac
ate this But layer after layer is acted upon il may
be enough In of the womb the frigorihc IS ap
piled by of specu!um and stronger than ice
and salt will generally be required The opin-
ions of Dr. Hughes Bennett respecting the nature OF can
Ger have much influenced the mode in which have used
congeation in its treatment NJ Velpeau states, In his
elaborate work diseases OF the breast that
has employed longcoatinusd congelaon substitute
for caustc in of this effect Of the agent have
no knowledge.
There other diseases treatment OF which
cold would probablybe very useful 1tmght be ap
piled with such hope to the spine in tetanus, or TO the
scalp in certain varieties Of mania After gunshot and
other wounds it would prove powerful preven
tive and cure of Inflammation. Even in pleuritis and
other deepseated Inflammation of the chest as well as In
various uterine affections benefit might nationally be ex
pected from It, In two Of epidemic cholera ad-
minstered succession of draughs OF temperature OF
about 25o Fahrenheit with apparently excellent effect;
doubt that the application Of cold to the in
terror of the stomachwhch appears b. the recently
published report of the College Of Physicians is the only
Of cholera which has been unanimously approx
ed ofha not been carried far enough If the irritation
of the membrane be considerable as it must be
to account for the exhausng and fatal dscharges the
temperature of ice merely is not sufficient to subdue it,
H. 4arhetic Uses Of Serere CodAs patients now ex-
pect to have every operation performed without pain
both they and their surgeons will be glad to have easy
operations unaccompanied with the dangers Of
chleroorn What be less troublesome in opening an
abscess, for instance making cutaneous incison
than touching the skn for moment w.h small brass
ball that has been immersed for few minutes in ice and
SALT thin spoon filled with such mixture Ii is
that in operations such means can on
ly suspend the sensiby of the skin but II is the Incl
of the skin which constitutes the most painful part
of every operation and if this be benumbed, smaller
and less hazardous dose of ether chloro
form than has usually been administered would be enough
the sensbility Of the other tissues These
deep-seated operations however, constitute small mi
norty and If the list Of recorded deaths from etherza
ton be referred now amountingto more than ffty)
will be found that in threefourths Of the number CON-
pete anashesa might have been produced with perfect
safety BY cold.
NJ yepeau, who introduced aDmsthesa from cold into
France has in lecture the recently reported
Gazette des Hoptaux expressed the doubt whether