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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    third century before the Christian era; but the Cnidian physician Ctesias, the co¬ temporary of Plato and Xenophon, who wrote about a century earlier, expresses himself very particularly on this subject, and warrants the supposition that the me¬ dicine was introduced into general practice about four hundred years before Christ. His words are, “In the time of my father i u and grandfather, no medical practitioner u administered hellebore, nor were its qua- “ lities, the manner of preparation, or “ proper dose known. But if any one “ gave hellebore, it was with this admoni- “ tion to the patient, that he must neces- i “ sarily be in great danger ; for of those “ who took this medicine, many were suf- “ focated, and few preserved; but it ap- “ pears to be now given with safety/* From i . the time of Ctesias the medicine was in
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