Observations on morbid poisons, phagedaena, and cancer: containing a comparative view of the theories of Dr. Swediaur, John Hunter, Messrs. Foot, Moore, and Bell, on the laws of the venereal virus. And also some preliminary remarks on the language and mode of reasoning adopted by medical writers / By Joseph Adams.

  • Joseph Adams
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Credit: Observations on morbid poisons, phagedaena, and cancer: containing a comparative view of the theories of Dr. Swediaur, John Hunter, Messrs. Foot, Moore, and Bell, on the laws of the venereal virus. And also some preliminary remarks on the language and mode of reasoning adopted by medical writers / By Joseph Adams. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    MR. BELL, | 419 quent period. In a confiderable number of in- {tances, where abortion had happened on thefe or _ the eighth month, a well conduéted courfe of mer- cury proved effectual. The difference of thefe periods feemsto depend entirely upon the quantity of virus in the parents habit: for ifthe remedy has only rendered a part of it inert, the period of abortion has been protraéted to the ninth month! ‘* In two inftances,’’ fays Mr. Bell, ¢ it [mercury ] “ did not anfwer fo completely as in the others, «* but in both there was fufficient evidence of tao *¢ little mercury having been employed; for the ¢* children in both inftances were kept till the be- ‘‘ ginning of the ninth month, which in one was “* two months, and in the other fix wecks later than «© had been the cafe before, and both the parents ‘«‘ having in each of thefe inftances been madé to « take mercury again, and in greater quantities than « before, no abortion has fince taken place, and é* each family has within thefe few years had feve- « ral healthy children,’?’ How numerous might thefe prolific families have been, had their furgeon been poffeffed of a “ *magn¢tic teft,”” or “any si nt “ vine intuition ! 1 _ Tuus farhave I phivdkded withan undertaking, which it is to be feared will imprefs the reader with: no very favorable opinion of my temper. When ‘I look over the printed fheets, I feel an apology neceflary,