The Historical Relations of Medicine And Surgery to the End of the Sixteenth Cen
The Historical Relations of Medicine And Surgery to the End of the Sixteenth Cen
T Clifford Thomas Clifford Allbutt
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As with the genuine Hippocratic school, a dry and adhesive edge was their desire. Nature, they said, produces the means of union in a viscous exudation, or balm— as Paracelsus called it, a word which Pare and Wiirtz adopted. In stale wounds they did their best to obtain union by cleansing, desiccation, and refreshing of the edges. Upon the outer surface they laid lint steeped in wine. Powders however they regarded as too desiccating, for powders thus shut in decomposing matters (" saniem incarc...erant ") ; wine, after washing, purifying, and drying the raw surfaces, evaporates. The quick, shrewd, and rational observation and the original genius of Theodoric I would gladly illustrate did time permit ; in passing I may say that he 32 THE HISTORICAL RELATIONS was the first to notice salivation as the result of administration of mercury in " skin diseases. " ^ Of the adherents of Hugh and Theodoric was the well-known Arnold of Villanova, the prototype of Basil Valentine and Paracelsus, and the champion of spirits of wine ; a visionary indeed but a man of mark.
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