A treatise on the structure, economy, and diseases of the liver;together with an inquiry into the properties and component parts of the bile and biliary concretions. By William Saunders / [William Saunders].

  • William Saunders
Date:
1797
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A treatise on the structure, economy, and diseases of the liver;together with an inquiry into the properties and component parts of the bile and biliary concretions. By William Saunders / [William Saunders]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ing furface fhould be employed for the purpofe of friction: fuch parts of the body as have the fineft cuticle, as between the fingers, in the axilla, or groin, abforb moft readily, and if the cuticle be removed by blifters, from any part of the body, fuch a furface will be found beft adapted to the . purpofe of abforption. Ulcers frequently abforb better than entire furfaces, and in many cafes fuch artificial means of pro-. moting abforption may be admitted.—lIt is likewife a fubje&t worth confidering, whether ftill greater. advantage can be derived from the introduction of. activ, and chymical preparations of mercury by abforption than by the ufe of the common ~ mercurial ointment.—-Ulcerated furfaces will abforb the faline preparations of mer- cury, while a furface, covered with a cu- ticle, would, with difficulty, admit them. The quantity of mercury, at any one time, ina ftate of action in the body, is fo fmall