Observations, from experience, on the aid obtained, in various diseases, particularly those incidental to tropical climates, by the external application of the nitro-muriatic acid, in a bath : with several cases, wherein it has been used by the author with great utility ; to which is added, the present most approved mode of mixing the acids, and preparing the bath / by Phineas Coyne.

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1822
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Credit: Observations, from experience, on the aid obtained, in various diseases, particularly those incidental to tropical climates, by the external application of the nitro-muriatic acid, in a bath : with several cases, wherein it has been used by the author with great utility ; to which is added, the present most approved mode of mixing the acids, and preparing the bath / by Phineas Coyne. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ]5 the acid bath. He goes on thus: “ Dr. Latham, the learned “ president of that learned body, the College of Physicians, “ lately observed to a physician from the East Indies, that “ the practitioners of this country were greatly indebted to •* those of the East for their preseut knowledge of diseases u of the liver; that by directing our attention to this impor- « tant organ, we had discovered that a great variety of u disease's, which were supposed to be nervous, are bilious.” He, however, concludes his remarks on Dr. Latham’s know- ledge in a very uncotirteous manner, by telling us, that “ w ith “ due deference to the opinion of the learned president of “ the College of Physicians, his observation on hepatic “ diseases is ridiculous.” Now whether Doctor Latham's remarks, with respect to our being indebted to the practi- tioners of the East for a knowledge of diseases of the liver, be correct or not, 1 most certainly shall not presume to determine; yet, as he asserts that the opinion of the learned president is fttmet;Lous, he should also have taken the trouble of proving it so, and explained to us from whence, in his opinion, the practitioners of this country have derived their information, or to what source they are indebted for it, if not to the East. For my own part, though l have been in the Honour- able East India Company’s service, yet I cannot say that I am so i. Ei,Y indebted to that circumstance for whatever knowledge I have in hepatic complaints ; and it is but grati- tude to acknowledge, that my first information relative to diseases of the liver, and the subsequent consequences, was derived from my brother,* with whom I occasionally lived, » Hr wav a ptmiciau in practice, previously to the time that I com- menced toy studie*. ^4