The American journal of the medical sciences (1827)
[Thorofare, N.J., etc.] Charles B. Slack [etc.] · leaf 359
his respiration. To remedy this inconvenience, we covered the patient's head with a sheet, elevated on the segments of large hoops, and then evaporated the mercury within this little sudatorium ^ as by this means he could not fail of in- haling the proper quantity. But this method was altogether… … •* We have not Pearson or Abernethy at hand, and it is many years since w e read them. All the knowledge we possess of what they say on this subject, is derived from the above mentioned portions of Rees's Cyclopaedia, and of Cooper's Surgical Dictionary.
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