Volume 1

The institutions of the practice of medicine : delivered in a course of lectures / by Jo. Baptist Burserius de Kanifeld ; translated from the Latin, by William Cullen Brown.

Date:
1800-1803
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    or cattle, or pulvis pyrius, or pepper. But ex- periments inftituted for the purpofe, have proved them to be either noxious or nugatory, efpecially arfenic, from the ufe of which De Haen, Storck, ij principal phylician to the Emperor, and Quarin, J have *** obferved a great many almoft incurable diiorders to rife ftt- * Obferv. de febrib. fe£t. 2. § 3. f Diflertat. de morb. adven. in America vexantibus. § 84. : t Trnka I. c. P. 2. fe&. 2. cap. v. $ e. || Mat. Med. T. 1. p. 126. § Trnka 1. c. c. viii. § a. ** Acad. Roy. des Scienc. des Paris. 1711. ff Trnka 1. c. § f. p. 508. L. c. lib. 3. cap. 8. fill A is aux Gens de la campa. chap. 20. p. 155. *** Berryat, becaufe he thinks it more probable that inter- I mittents arife from fpafms than obftru&ions, el'pecially when : they come on with great {baking, therefore gives an opiate to remove the fpafms. But he employs the liquid laudanum of Sydenham, in infants to the extent of ffx drops, in adults to j twenty, in a dilution of centaureum minus, an hour before j the commencement of the {hivering. If the patient confine j himfelf to bed, it promotes fweating. lie fays that in this ; way, he himfelf has cured intermittents which had bid de- fiance to the Peruvian bark. V. Comm. Lipf. vol. vi. P. 3. J p. 517. 518.. But even this is an unfafe remedy. I have ] known that remedy give rife to incurable fymptoms. Morifot, j nay, Deflandes, taught by many years experience, have lately rejected the treatment recommended by Berryat. Vid. Journal I de mcd. Janvier 1781. p. 23. fff De Haen Rat. hied. T. xi. p. 64. 65. Storck. Ann. med. i.p. 79. 80. Quarin. febr. medend. c. xii. p. 138.
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