Medical sketches ... / by George Kerr.

  • Kerr, George
Date:
1818
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Medical sketches ... / by George Kerr. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    point out many instances, both in medicine and surgery, in which the approved and recently adopted practice of the present day exactly coincides with the ancient rules ; but the purpose of this Essay is to draw the public attention to the use of one remedy, once most successfully used, but now fallen into disuse, and even considered v ¥ as a poison ; and that is, Hellebore, as ap¬ plied for the cure of Insanity, and other diseases. Not only are we assured of the efficacy of this Medicine, by the most re- spectable medical writers of antiquity, but we find that efficacy proverbially noticed * by the poets and historians of Greece and Rome, and notwithstanding the disconti¬ nuance of its use, allusions to its once highly-estimated virtues occur in the wTritings of the moderns. O Caput helle¬ bore dignum l and ad Corey ram ! were 1
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