Observations on the nature and cure of calculus, sea scurvy, consumption, catarrh, and fever: together with conjectures upon several other subjects of physiology and pathology ... / By Thomas Beddoes, M.D.

  • Thomas Beddoes
Date:
1797
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Credit: Observations on the nature and cure of calculus, sea scurvy, consumption, catarrh, and fever: together with conjectures upon several other subjects of physiology and pathology ... / By Thomas Beddoes, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    forded relief.in lefs than three weeks ; and in no cafe’ but one, out of more than twenty that have fallen under my own obfervation, have they failed to perform every thing which could be defired from medicine, ex- cept eradicating the tendency to form cal- culous concretions, to which no known re- medy has the {malleft pretenfions. - I might perhaps fafely truft to the above- mentioned pamphlet, as bearing abundant te{timony to the efficacy of alkaline falts ;. and confidently appeal to future experience in confirmation both of the power of fal fodez in the form -prefcribed, and. of its harmlefinefs; at all events it will be unne- ceflary to particularize flight cafes, which have always at once yielded to the remedy. The following, in which the fymptoms were either of very long ftanding, or extreme fe- verity, will, ] hope, be fufficient to procure a trial to the medicine. 1, Mr.)