Cases of insanity, the epilepsy, hypochondriacal affection, hysteric passion, and nervous disorders, successfully treated / by William Perfect, surgeon, of West Malling, in Kent.

  • William Perfect
Date:
[1780?]
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Credit: Cases of insanity, the epilepsy, hypochondriacal affection, hysteric passion, and nervous disorders, successfully treated / by William Perfect, surgeon, of West Malling, in Kent. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by University of Bristol Library. The original may be consulted at University of Bristol Library.

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    [ 20(5 ] Do&or Samuel Foart Simmons, of Bentinck Street, Cavendifh Square, has lately favoured the world with a full and particular account. The warm pediluvium the fame evening was begun, and a courfe of the cam- phire and nitre entered upon, and continued to the end of the cure, ex- cept on every fifth or fixth night, when, in its (lead, I thought proper to give her, as a vermifuge, five grains of calomel, and fifteen of rhubarb; fhe had not menftruated for more than three months before her coming to me, and the firfl reappearance of that falu- tary fecretion was obferved in a fmall quantity, on the 26th of June, and on the 24th of July following, it re- turned in a more copious manner; in a few days after which, fhe recovered her