A treatise on the structure, economy, and diseases of the liver : with an inquiry into the properties and component parts of bile and biliary calculi. ... To which is now added a more particular account of the hepatitis of India, with observations on the prevalent use of mercury in the diseases of this country / By William Saunders, M.D. FRS. & SA. Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians; and Physician Extraordinary to the Prince of Wales.

  • William Saunders
Date:
1809
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Credit: A treatise on the structure, economy, and diseases of the liver : with an inquiry into the properties and component parts of bile and biliary calculi. ... To which is now added a more particular account of the hepatitis of India, with observations on the prevalent use of mercury in the diseases of this country / By William Saunders, M.D. FRS. & SA. Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians; and Physician Extraordinary to the Prince of Wales. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    of matter anticipates the constitutional effect of mercury. But in by far the greater number of cases, when the symp- toms of the disease are distinguished at their first accession (which it is not always easy to do] and the above plan of treatment is carefully pursued, the suppuration is prevented, and the patient is brought into a convalescent state. This great improvement in the treat- ment of the East India hepatitis, by the early introduction of mercury into the constitution, leads me to notice at some length, the opinion, which has for some time prevailed among the generality of practitioners, of the powerful and specific action which this valuable metal is sup- posed to exert, even in the cure of almost