Observations on chronic weakness / By Thomas Withers.

  • Thomas Withers
Date:
1777
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Credit: Observations on chronic weakness / By Thomas Withers. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ans in particular cafes of chronic weaknefs. From a chymical analyfis of the human body, a fmall portion of iron is found by the accurate chy mill to be one of its conftituent parts. Steel, when rendered foluble in aqueous fluids, by means of its union with an acid, has a fuccefs- ful operation in ftrengthening the fyftem. The fait of fteel, a neutral in which fteel and the vi¬ triolic acid are combined, is a valuable remedy, and capable of producing very good effects. It will diflfolve in water, enter the vefiels, mix with the blood, and be diftributed over the whole fyftem. When fteel is finely powdered and ta¬ ken in fubftance, a portion of it is difiolved by the vegetable acid which is in the firft pafifages* and by this folution its addon on the human body is promoted.“The effedts of fteel are very general in removing all the fymptons of chronic weaknefs. It is a medicine well adapted to obvi¬ ate relaxations of the womb, to remove obstruc¬ tions of the menfes, or to check preternatural uterine difcharges, whether of mucus or of blood. For the fame intentions, the ufe of chalybeate waters are ftrongly recommended, and where there is no venous or arterial plethora, they are remedies which are extremely ufeful in reftor- X 2 ing