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.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    PREFACE. IN the following work an attempt will be made to inveftigate the me- dical properties of mercury, and after- wards to apply them to the cure of fome of the moft formidable difeafes affe&ing the human body. The Firft Part confifts of pra&ical ob- fervations on the well-known method of ufing mercury under confinement, commonly called Salivation: the Second takes into confideration its effedls as an alterative antivenereal: with fome ftric- tures on the ufe of fedatives, in the Lues Venerea. At a future opportunity will A follow