A treatise on the medical properties of mercury / by John Howard.

  • Howard, John, -1808.
Date:
1782
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Credit: A treatise on the medical properties of mercury / by John Howard. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ *4 ] this work, to the different cafes that may occur, will give, that general fuccefs in practice; which no over fcrupulous ad- herence to any one method, or medicine, will ever arrive at. From what has been faid refpedling the external ufe of fedatives, the reader will, fee, that I am no enemy to them when they are employed merely to affift the general operation of mercury, by quiet- ing local irritation. Nor to the applica- tion of caujl. lunar. mer. prczcip. r.-pulv. fabin. &c. whenever the ftru&ure of any part isfofar injured, that the ufual appli- cations to the fyftem will not reach it; as in fome excrefcences. But I would advife the utmoft caution in the ufe of the one fet of topics, or the other, in cafes of Ample uninflamed chancre, or chancrous ex- coriation ; more efpecially, when the general effe&s of the fpecific are in any degree, equivocal. i 'ill