"Almost all the infants affected with this disease in the hospitals of Paris," says M. Marjolin, "sink under it." He recommends, after Van Sweiten, the use of muriatic acid, which he mixes with honey in equal proportions. Thick sloughs he cuts away with a bistouri or with scissors. MM. Jadelot, Guersent, and Baron, have employed the actual cautery with success in several instances. M. Marjolin has cured three cases; one by the actual cautery, one by caustic potassa, and a third by muriate of soda! which, he believes, will always destroy the fœtor. It would be interesting, undoubtedly, to make repeated trials of this simple remedy; and we shall endeavour to do so in cases which admit of delay.
FOOTNOTES:
[1] Vol. I. p. 319, Anderson's edition.
[2] Principles of Surgery; by John Pearson. Lond. 1788. p. 262, et seq.
[3] Opera omnia. Vol. II. p. 271. In the Loganian Library.
[4] Ibidem.
[5] See Cornelii Stalpaart Vander Wiel Observationes Medico-Anatomicæ. p. 167. Note by the editor, P. Stalpaart Vander Wiel. Amsterdam, 1687. In the Loganian Library.
[6] In the Loganian Library.
[7] Page 193.
[8] Page 217.