Three dissertations on Boylston prize questions for the years 1806 and 1807 / By George Cheyne Shattuck, M.D. Being the dissertations to which the Boylston prize medals were adjudged. To which is prefixed the public account of their adjudication.

  • George Cheyne Shattuck Sr.
Date:
1808
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Credit: Three dissertations on Boylston prize questions for the years 1806 and 1807 / By George Cheyne Shattuck, M.D. Being the dissertations to which the Boylston prize medals were adjudged. To which is prefixed the public account of their adjudication. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    a sensation of fulness, a thickening of the bile may gencral- L- ]y be suspected^ &c.:> Hallcr's Fhysiologia, vol. v, p. 575—6, contains the following : Etiam in raphani rusticani succo, crusta exterior moU lescil. 6f in succo cochleariae, at que nasturcinarum planta- 1 rum hi calculi solvimtur, ut arena sit in aim excrementis. Etiam in universum succus vegetabilium recentium icte- rum sanaty § fecit, ut calculi fragmenta prodirent; $ in Hungaricis bo bus, adeo crustis biliariis infestatis, uti did- mus, recens Sf vernale gramen ita solvit, ut Viennae nullus u calculus supersit, quo aguntur. Many physicians of modern times seem to have embraced these opinions of Haller respecting the solubility of biliary concretions in the juices of recent vegetables, for in this vicin- ity they have been a common prescription for those affected with chronic jaundice. THE END.