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The setons, medieval theorists argued, caused a flow of "laudable pus" from the chest and head.
From Time Magazine Archive
The pockets should be well drained, either through incisions at the bottom or by drainage tubes or setons.
From Special Report on Diseases of the Horse by Michener, Charles B.
For which end blood-lettings, emetics, cathartics, blisters, and setons, also sometimes coolings of the head are to be employed.
From Medica Sacra or a Commentary on on the Most Remarkable Diseases Mentioned in the Holy Scriptures by Mead, Richard
In other cases tonics, stimulants, blisters, and setons have been tried, but all failed.
From On the cattle plague: or, Contagious typhus in horned cattle. Its history, origin, description, and treatment by Bourguignon, Honor?
In many cases of insanity there prevails a great degree of insensibility, so that patients have scarcely appeared to feel the passing of setons, the drawing of blisters, or the punctures of cupping.
From Observations on Madness and Melancholy Including Practical Remarks on those Diseases together with Cases and an Account of the Morbid Appearances on Dissection by Haslam, John
