Further observations on the internal use of the hydro-cyanic (prussic) acid, in pulmonary complaints; chronic catarrhs; spasmodic coughs; asthma; hooping-cough; and some other diseases : with full directions for the preparation and administration of that medicine / by A.B. Granville.
- Augustus Granville
- Date:
- 1819
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Further observations on the internal use of the hydro-cyanic (prussic) acid, in pulmonary complaints; chronic catarrhs; spasmodic coughs; asthma; hooping-cough; and some other diseases : with full directions for the preparation and administration of that medicine / by A.B. Granville. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.
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![[ 17] liavins: any recourse to bleedinsi:.* This, in a subject already exhausted by age, depletion, and a spare diet, must be considered as an incalculable advantage; for in al( such cases there is a point at which the phlebotomist is obliged to stop, or ^he patient might expire under the lancet, before the desired effects of copious bleeding, in checking a chronic habit of inflammation, are perceived. The partial success which some physicians have obtained in the various disorders they have treated with the Prussic Acid, evidently shews that it may be used without danger; for no one case has yet been recorded, in which the acid in question (when properly administered) has proved either fatal or injurious; whilst of the digitalis alone, (to say nothing of other active and poisonous medicines) several instances of its highly baneful effects on theiinimal system are found in medical works and journals ; not- withstanding which, the digitalis is daily pre- scribed by physicians even to the most delicate subjects. A very few grains of tartar emetic dissolved in water, and a still smaller quantity of corrosive sublimate, will each destroy life ; * Consult Brugnatelli's '* Element! di Chimica applicata alia Farmacia, article Acido Ossiprussico. 1814. c](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21055014_0029.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
