Homoeopathy, as practised in Manchester : contrasted with its alleged principles / by William Roberts.

  • Roberts, Sir William, 1830-1899.
Date:
1862
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Credit: Homoeopathy, as practised in Manchester : contrasted with its alleged principles / by William Roberts. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The first prescription directs one grain of the first decimal attenuation [A.] of the Red Oxide of Mercury (red precipitate) to be taken in powder. Each powder, therefore, contained a tenth of a grain of the Red Oxide. Six of the little powders were wrapped up in the paper; and long before I had learnt to decipher the written symbols, I had ascertained their composition by direct analysis. The patient, as might have been expected, was under the influence of Mercury, and in a state of salivation. The second prescription is simply “Black Wash” (containing the Black Oxide of Mercury) ordered in the usual way. On the back of the paper was the inscrip- tion :— MANCHESTER & SALFORD HOMEOPATHIC DISPENSARY, 29, LGYBR STREET. &c. I wonder whether the subscribers to the Manchester and Salford Homoeopathic Dispensary are aware that their money is spent in so old-fashioned a way ! In No. 10, another mercurial preparation, Mercurius Solubilis, or the Black Oxide, is prescribed in the same attenuation alternately with Tincture of Belladonna.