An account of the English nightshades, and their effects. With the original case of Dr. Lambergen ... Also practical observations on the use of corrosive sublimate, and sarsaparilla: on the different effects of mercury crude, and when prepared by chemistry. And some hints ... on the cure of the lues venera by the secretion of urine instead of salivation / [William Bromfield].

  • William Bromfield
Date:
1757
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Credit: An account of the English nightshades, and their effects. With the original case of Dr. Lambergen ... Also practical observations on the use of corrosive sublimate, and sarsaparilla: on the different effects of mercury crude, and when prepared by chemistry. And some hints ... on the cure of the lues venera by the secretion of urine instead of salivation / [William Bromfield]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    that a mortification will fooner hap¬ pen where S>uick-fiher with this view is given, than where it is omit¬ ted ; as the Mercury has been almoft always found, on difleCtion, in the faccuhis ? and whether oil in large quantity, mixed with a lenient ca¬ thartic, would not bid fairer for relief by blunting the acrimony of the matter that occafioned the convul- fion, than giving any of the rough flimulating purges with Calomel ? The hafty introduction of Mer¬ cury into the blood, I believe, was one great reafon practitioners were formerly fo often difappointed of their cures in venereal cafes: the whole that they feemed to have in view, was making of deep Houghs in the mouth, from which a mod offenfive difcharge of faliva was ob¬ tain'd. Obfervation and the know¬ ledge of the parts convince us that this attack is merely accidental: for where the excretory vefTels of the F fkin