This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1882 edition. Excerpt: ...affected, and three or four drops of a solution of persulphate (1 part in 4 of water) were sufficient for cure; the patient was in the upright position, and pressure was carefully applied above and below the seat of puncture (Ranking, ii., 1860). Sentoux, collecting 126 cases, found 100 cured, 19 relieved, 6 unaffected, and only 1 death. Denuce reports many successful cases (Moniteur des Sciences Medicales, November 15, 1862; British and Foreign Review, April, 1862); the perchloride was used with certain precautions. Desgranges thought the method, with ordinary care, to be free from danger--2 drops sufficed for the largest varicose lobule. He notes the improvement in varicose ulcers after the operation (Abstract: British and Foreign Review, ii., 1858). Morgan, of Dublin, succeeded in obliterating part of the saphena vein by injecting 5 drops of Monsel's solution in two places, carefully isolated: coagulum formed in fifteen minutes, and the case did well; in another, with irregular dilatation, and large varicose clusters about the knee, the same method of injection above and below was equally successful (Medical Press, July 14, 1869). Brainard's experiments on the formation of clot in veins under the use of sulphate.were very satisfactory (loc. cit); and Gross, speaking of naevus, and discouraging the use of perchloride, yet says that by " Monsel's solution any case of arterial or venous tumor, unless very bulky, may generally be promptly and effectually cured" ("System of Surgery"); this would seem sufficient to warrant a further trial. Hcemorrhoids.--The perchloride is not only frequently of service as a styptic injection into the rectum to relieve bleeding from internal haemorrhoids, but has been used sometimes by direct injection into...