Observations on the nature and treatment of the variolous abscess, with remarks on the modern practice of inoculation, and a review of the principal writers on that important subject ... in a letter to Dr. Buchan / By Peter Clare.

  • Peter Clare
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1781
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    t r- ] yetfufficienr to keep up a gentle mercurial Aimulus in the habit.. Mercury and wine operate fomewhat alike upon the body. With a certain quantity of wine, hardnefs,, fullnefs, and acceleration of the pulfe will fupervene, till at length in common an evacuation takes place when it does not, and the wine is retained there,, (like mercury ex.- hibited*as an alterative), it excites feverinY heat,, and does-the conftitution much more injury than when.it pafles off gradually by, any of the ordinary evacuations-. Dr. Fordyce obfervesj, it is- never ne* cellary to ialivate a patient,, unlefs he be fo- irritable, that. the. fm a lie ft dofe of mercury immediately affects his mouth, or unlefs- the difeafe be proceeding fo fall that it would be hazardous- to wait till it was .checked by the remedy, given in fuch a manner as to avoid falivation ; or exceptr jng when we cannot truft to his ufing it regularly.. On the contrary,.falivation ren- ders the effects of the medicine uncerrain. The fame author fays,.c<If; notwithftand*- ing thefe precautions, a falivation fhould come on, we know of no remedy which will remove it with any degree of certainty, although.