A view of the mercurial practice in febrile diseases / by John Warren, M.D.

  • John Warren
Date:
1813
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Credit: A view of the mercurial practice in febrile diseases / by John Warren, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

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    \i The third part will contain a sketch of sonic of the febrile diseases, which have prevailed within the last thirty years in the eastern part of the States, particularly in Massachusetts. Typhus has at several times been an endemic in this state ; and the yellow fever has twice been epidemic in the town of Boston. The histories of those two diseases will be given, with the methods of treatment; the success of mercurial practice, and such information as could be derived from dissec- tions. Cases will be subjoined for the purpose of exhi- biting the particular practice which was adopted by the physicians of this metropolis. The fourth part will contain a short account of the endemical and epidemic diseases which have appeared in this place, both subjects of mercurial practice. Some of those most common belonging to the class specifically contagious, are small pox and mea- sles. With the former the people of New England claim special acquaintance, as the change which it has undergone in their hands from mercury and inoculation has been such, that it may be said in some sense to have assumed a new form from their modification. Throat distemper and dysentery have, from an early period, been known at times to spread their ravages through many of the country towns, and some of the seaports of New England, and from their singular malignity are entitled to consideration.
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