Extracts from a Work on Counter-Irritation, Its Principles and Practice, Illustrated by One Hundred Cases of the Most Painful and Important Diseases Effectually Cured by External Applications

Extracts From A Work On Counter-Irritation, Its Principles And Practice, Illustrated By One Hundred Cases Of The Most Painful And Important Diseases Effectually Cured By External Applications by Augustus Bozzi Granville presents a nineteenth?century medical treatise advocating external counter-irritation therapies. The volume compiles introductory remarks by T. J. Crossman and extracts from Granville’s original work, detailing the discovery and use of an antidynous counter-irritating lotion designed to derivate, revulse, and relieve pain. Across numerous sections, the book catalogs dozens of case histories—from neuralgia, tic douloureux, and headaches to rheumatism, lumbago, and other circulatory and mixed disorders—demonstrating often instantaneous or rapid relief via external applications, sometimes with vesication. Granville argues that such external remedies can suspend or even permanently alleviate pain in many conditions without internal drugs, while acknowledging limitations where organic disease or chronic pathology exist. The volume culminates in a set of general conclusions about counter-irritation and its potential to transform medical practice in the 19th century.