Medical reports of the effects of arsenic, in the cure of agues, remitting fevers, and periodic headachs [sic] ... Together with a letter from Dr. Arnold ... and another from Dr. Withering / by Thomas Fowler.
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- 1786
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Credit: Medical reports of the effects of arsenic, in the cure of agues, remitting fevers, and periodic headachs [sic] ... Together with a letter from Dr. Arnold ... and another from Dr. Withering / by Thomas Fowler. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![February 25 th. The Solution gave no Diflurbance, fhe has had no Return of Paroxyfms, but continues quite well. OBSERVATIONS. ]V/TARSHALL'S Cafe was very diftin6lly marked by the tertian Type; and altho' he only took the Solution twice a Day, for fix Days, it was equally as fuccefsful as in fimple Agues ; for he had only two Exacerbations, during the Ufe of the Medicine, the operative ElFeds of which were very mild. The remitting Fever of Harper was chiefly remarkable, from the tertian Exacerbations being attended, with correfponding Paroxyfms of vi- olent Headach, which however we find oc- curred but once, after he began the Ufe of the Solution, the operative Effedls of which, al- though troublefome, were very fupportable. The Anorexia in this Cafe was very pointed, and the Removal thereof feemed to be accele- rated, by the gentle Operation of the opening Pills. Sarah Simpfon was cured of a tertian Ague in Auguft laft, by the Ufe of the Solution*, and now of a remitting Fever by the fame Me- dicine. * vide Cafe xri.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21935555_0092.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
