Practical information on the malignant scarlet fever and sore throat : in which a new mode of treatment is freely communicated / By E. Peart.

  • Edward Peart
Date:
1802
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Credit: Practical information on the malignant scarlet fever and sore throat : in which a new mode of treatment is freely communicated / By E. Peart. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ( >3 ) operandi of the medicine I recommend; for, fo long as the caufes of difeafes are unknown, little fatisfadtion can be expected from the explana¬ tions which are given, of the manner in which medicines aft in removing them. That I may not, however, be thought to condemn without reafon, I (hall take the liberty of making a few general remarks on the popular ideas on the fubjedt. The operation of medicines in curing difeafes, is, in the prefent theories, greatly Amplified; and, in every fenfe of the word, the prefent explana¬ tions are truly fimple. The oxyds of antimony are powerfully emetic; —the oxyds of mercury excite falivation ;—the oxyds of iron are tonic;—in fadt, every metallic oxvd has its powers of adtion on the living fyftem, and that by no means inconiiderable. The French chemifls ajfert that all thele metallic oxyds produce their effedis by oxydaling the