Essays on the hepatitis and spasmodic affections in India : founded on observations made whilst on service with His Majesty's troops in different parts of that country / by Thomas Girdlestone.

  • Thomas Girdlestone
Date:
1787
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Credit: Essays on the hepatitis and spasmodic affections in India : founded on observations made whilst on service with His Majesty's troops in different parts of that country / by Thomas Girdlestone. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

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    introduced by the ftomach, it might have a tendency to pafs oft by the mouth before the iyftem was much affeded j whereas, when it was introduced by the fkin, a large quantity could be retained in the fyftem before the gums became affeded: and therefore, if any advantage was to be ex- peded from mercury in this difeafe, this latter method, in which larger quantities could be introduced into the fyftem, ought naturally to be preferred. The two following cafes, related to me by the gentlemen themfelves, firft: led me to believe the ncceftity of much mercury in the cure of this difeafe. CASE of Major D. C. taken in September 1783. Major D. C. of the Company’s fer- vice, a ftout, ftrong-made Highlander, of about fixty years of age, after being two years in India, began to labour under a liver-