Observations on the effects of various articles of the materia medica, in the cure of lues venerea : illustrated with cases / by John Pearson.

  • Pearson, John, 1758-1826.
Date:
1807
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Credit: Observations on the effects of various articles of the materia medica, in the cure of lues venerea : illustrated with cases / by John Pearson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    intend to deny, nor to conceal, that real in- conveniencies are sometimes connected with the administration .of that medicine. There are certain peculiarities of constitution, where its irritating qualities predominate over its medicinal ones, and where the mode of its agency seems rather calculated to distress the patient, and to injure the health, than to remove the disease for which it is exhibited: hence, it were highly desirable to acquire a medicine equally potent as an antivenereal, and not possessing certain active properties peculiar to that mineral. But this concession forms no valid objec- tion against Mercury exclusively. There are other articles of the materia in edit a, which produce ill cffe6ts on the animal system, even when administered with the utmost skill and judgment. It is sufficiently known, that Antimony, Ipecacuanha, Peru- vian Bark, Opium, Digitalis, Rhubarb, Mag- nesia, Honey, &c. when brought into conflict cJ2 with