The medical assistant, or Jamaica practice of physic, designed chiefly for the use of families and plantations / [Thomas Dancer].
- Thomas Dancer
- Date:
- 1819
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The medical assistant, or Jamaica practice of physic, designed chiefly for the use of families and plantations / [Thomas Dancer]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![» ehildren, and prevent the administering a sure mercurial poison, in the form of Ching’s lozenges, from which the most direful effects may be apprehended. “On Sunday and. Wednesday, Diese ies 4th and 7th, 1803, Ching’s worm lozenges were administered, according to the dine was ina high state of salivation. Medical assistance was immediately called in, when he was pronounced in imminent danger from mercurial. lozenges. Nemedies were inime- diately applied, and all the aid that medi- cines could afford resorted te, but without effect ; for the mouth ulcerated, the teeth dropped out, the hands contracted, and a complaint was made of a pricking pain in them and the fect, the body became flushed and spotied, and at last black; convulsions succeeded, attended with a slight delirium ; and-a mortification destroyed the face, which, proceeding to the brain, put a period (after - indescribable tcrments) to the life of the little sufferer, on Sunday, the Ist inst. twenty- eight days after he had taken the poisonous lozenges. This shews how cautious people ought to be in administering quack medicines. * A coroner’s inquest being summoned, and the evidence of the medical gentlemen adduced, the jury returned a verdict——poz- soned by Ching’s lozenges.” ‘¢ Aj] the advertised nostrums for worms we have had.an opportunity of examining prove to. be a.composition of mercury, combined with scammony, jalap, gamboge, and other drastic purgatives, which very few medical practitioners would venture to. give to deli- cate children or infants. To.say the best: of them, they are A7/l or cure medicines, and as the public are only informed of their benefi- cial effects, so it is impossible they can form any estimate of their rea)-merit.. From.their drastic: qualities it must appear evident, in _ the hands of ignorance they must often be productive of much mischief, particularly in ricketty or weakly children, or when nrraci- dity prevails in the stomach and bowels, with: ET BT 2 ee Balsam of Honey. «© Whatever Sir John Hill’s. botanical author of the directions, &c. which accom- pany this nostrum, we do not hesitate to pro~ nounce him ignorant both of the properties plaints for the cure of which it is recom- mended; ihe expression that it is capable of opening the thoracic duct betrays a want of anatomical knowledge. We cannot suppose that Sir John Hill, as a regular physician, would have recommended sucha medicine in - whatever, be made from honey. In phar- macy, or chemistry, there is no such prepa-- ration known as balsam of honey, or is the- made, capable of extracting any of the medi- cinal properties of honey. In coughs, arising: from obstructed perspiration, in which there is always more or less a disposition to pleu- risy or inflammation of the lungs, what must. be the effect of this stimulating tincture? We can have no hesitation in declaring that it. must be productive of the most serious, if net irreparable, mischief. oui : «¢ Every preparation under this name, viz. we have examined, is nothing but tincture of virtues, ‘are diametrically opposite to honey.’* Godbola’s Vegetable Balsam. ‘© On examining this nostrum, we do not discover any property that can in any degree~ entitle it to the appellation of * balsam ;’ the: propricty.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b3288624x_0360.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
