Considerations on the medicinal use of factitious airs and on the manner of obtaining them / [Thomas Beddoes].

  • Thomas Beddoes
Date:
[1794?]-1796
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Credit: Considerations on the medicinal use of factitious airs and on the manner of obtaining them / [Thomas Beddoes]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    (403 3) ad:—I have taken to-day a confiderable quantity of acid, diluted with water, as much as 1 could eafily drink during the forenoon. : 3d.—I have continued the Acid: I feel my gums affefted from it, and they are fomewhat red and enlarged between the Teeth. I flept ill, but could lie: for a length of time on my left fide, which from fome difeafe in my liver, has not been the cafe for many months before. I perceive a pain in the back of my head, refembling what I have commonly felt — when taking mercury. _ we ‘4th.—My gums are a little tender: I continue the acid as before. I ftill find a pain in my head and about my jaws, like what arifes from mercury. I per- ceive no fymptoms of my liver complaint. | 5th.—I have taken the acid, and always feel an agreeable fenfe of heat after drinking it. I fpit more than ufual. _ 6th.—I continue the acid: I obferve my mouth forer to-day, and {pit more. ' qth.—I think [ am now fufficiently oxygenated. I feel my mouth fo troublefome, that I thal] take no more acid. | | _ From this time my mouth got gradually well, and I found my health confiderably improved. I now began to fuppofe that I had difcovered a remedy for that chronic difeafe of the liver, which is fo much more common here than the acute hepatitis. I thought that it might in fome refpeét be preferable to mercury, as it did’ not appear to produce the in- conveniences that arife from the ufe of that metal. I have given it fince to a number of people who had taken mercury for hepatic obftructions, without being effectually cured, and I have found it in many cafes produce the moft agreeable confequences.. If it were proper on this occafion to be more particular in de- tailing the cafes, in which I have adminiftred this remedy, I believe that I could make it very probable that I have not been deceiving myfelf. In the acute hepatitis I have hardly employed it, for where the life of a perfon is in immediate danger, I have thought it my duty tomakeufe of remedies that are eftablithed. & : I have
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