The ancient physician's legacy to his country / By Thomas Dover.

  • Thomas Dover
Date:
1771
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Credit: The ancient physician's legacy to his country / By Thomas Dover. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    A ' I [ 84 ] . I I . But I am not to iniift on this Head : and the learned Author of the New Theory of Fevers, has already moil ingenioufly ex¬ plain’d the Mechanifm by which fuch Eftedls as thefe are produced in the Human Body. It fuffices to my prefent Purpofe, to have proved that pure Mercury is not poi/onous or corrojive 5 and therefore, not only have I feen two Ounces of ic given every Day, for one and twenty Days together, without any Inconvenience at all; but found once fome Quantity of it in the Perinseum of a Subject I took from the Gallows for a Difiecftion, (whofe rotten Bones quickly difcover’d what Difeafe it was had required the Ufe of it, and that, I fuppofe, chiedy in external Applica¬ tion by Undtion) without any Mark of Corrofion of the Part where it was lodged. Tho5 withal, we may upon this Gccafion remark, that the extream Gravity of this Mineral alone, however ferviceable it may be in other refpedts, yet when it happens in fo great a Quantity to obftrudt the Capillary Dudls, as that the Force of the cifcline Fluid is not fufficient to wafh it awav, muft neceffarily induce Symptoms troublefome and bad enough, as Spafms, Contractions, Palfies, i
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