Letters concerning the internal dropsy of the brain : to Charles William Quin, M.D. ... from William Patterson, M.D. ...
- Date:
- 1794
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Credit: Letters concerning the internal dropsy of the brain : to Charles William Quin, M.D. ... from William Patterson, M.D. ... Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![[ 45 ] doubt infufe a (Irong partiality in favour of the Me-* dicine to which the cure is afcribed. We accord- ingly find the Do£lor, 'in the year, 1791, fteady to his early attachment, and a powerful advocate for the fuperior merits of the mercurial plan. • N In confirmation of its preference, he reports that of twenty-fix cafes, the number that he particularly examined, eleven of the patients recovered, and fif- teen died; in feven of the recoveries mercury was employed, and other remedies in the remaining four ; in four cafes of the deaths mercurials were ufed, arid other remedies in eleven. Thefe fads, drawn from authentick records, he confiders as affording remarkable proofs of the pre-eminence of a mercu- rial courfe ; and in this conclufion he is confirmed by his own experience. At the fame time he ac- knowledges, that it is far from being a certain re- medy ; but refle^ling on the almo(t conftant fatality of the diforder, under every antecedent method of cure, he thinks it fliould be embraced as a valuable acquifition to the healing art. Yet in the recital of one of the earliefl cafes in which mercury had been employed, ou'r author ap-' prehends that he too much difparaged former modes of treatment, and too haflily declared his foie ami exclufive trufl in the internal and external ufe of that remedy. Perceiving the errotir of this in- tire reliance, he now confeffes that there are fcve- ral medicinal aids, w'hich, however infufficient in themfelves to conquer this formidable difeafe, may contribute](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28042396_0052.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
