An account of the late Dr. Goldsmith's illness, so far as it relates to the exhibition of Dr. James's powders / [William Hawes].

  • William Hawes
Date:
1774
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Credit: An account of the late Dr. Goldsmith's illness, so far as it relates to the exhibition of Dr. James's powders / [William Hawes]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    1 *7 3 » • ' v * f * ♦ * • * ' axiom, that whenever powerful means are adminiftered, if the confequences are not beneficial, they mud be exceedingly pernicious, and perhaps fatal and irreparable, PrinciPiis obsta is an excellent maxim, and what I would recommend to every one; take care in the beginning of a diforder, and you will nine times out of ten fave your- felf the trouble of applying to any powerful Noftrum what¬ ever ; for it frequently happens that when the difeafe has ob* tained full pofleffion, fero medicina paratur* The defire I have to warn mankind againft the fatal effects produced by the indifcriminate exhibition of various potent ** than twenty years practice, though I have never prefcribed this medicine, yet I have “ not, after fairly declaring my opinion, oppofed its being given when defired by the “ fick or their relations; and as the cure, where I have been concerned, has been wholly 1 * committed to it, without the addition of any medicine, or even regimen, excepting “ what is defcribed in the printed directions, or what the inventor himfelf has ordered ; “ fomefair opportunities have occurred of obferving it’s effeCts • to which, and to every €t other information that could be obtained, with a mind open to conviction, I have ** carefully attended. But in this, as in all our former refearches, the evidence has “ been unfavourable to the fame of the Powder. In fome inftances it has occafioned fainting, convulfions, and other violent fym- •* ptoms, which terrified thofe who gave it. In all which I have feen it has proved “ unfuccefsful, though, in fome cafes, the cure has afterwards been accomplifhed by “ fafer methods; and in thofe where it was too late to ufe any other remedies, the fick “ have died, although it was probable they might have recovered by a different manage- “ ment, which has fucceeded in fimilar inftances ; but from an abufed and mifplaced confidence, has been too often fet afide to make way for this favourite medicine.” Obfervatlons en Antimony, page 92, 93. F .medicines.,
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