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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    medicines, has poffibly betrayed me into an improper warmth of expreffion (perhaps not altogether fo prudent for one in my prefent fituation of life), which I flatter myfelf will be excufed by the humane and fenfible part of the Public, when it is confidered, that the prefervation of the *« ' \ ~ r > . ” lives of my fellow-creatures was the principal incitement to -it. I could here expatiate amply on the ufe of bleeding, blifters, antimonials, and other potent remedies in acute difeafes; but the prefent unhappy occafion requiring a fpeedy publication of this little production, my other avo¬ cations will not permit me at prefent to think of it. But if Iffiould be blefledwith health and opportunity, I may poffibly, at fome future period, trouble the Public with my fentiments on thefe important means of relief and recovery ; and en¬ deavour to fliew, upon rational and confident principles, that thefe very powerful medical applications require the cleared ideas of the caufes and progrefs of difeafes, to render them truly ufeful in the healing art. <# I have now finifhed the relation of this unhappy cafe, and thofe obfervations to which it has given rife ; and 1 ap¬ prehend, that the hints which I have thrown out on the too
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