Observations on gangrenes and mortifications : accompanied with, or occasioned by, convulsive spasms, or arising from local injury, producing irritation / By Charles White.
- Charles White
- Date:
- 1790
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Observations on gangrenes and mortifications : accompanied with, or occasioned by, convulsive spasms, or arising from local injury, producing irritation / By Charles White. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![p [ ” ] fpecies of a diforder, ranged under one head, will not, at all times and in all cafes, be cured by one and the fame medicine, though curable by others. The particular fpecies of mortification, which is the fubjedl of this pamphlet, is that accompanied with, or occafioned by, convulfive fpafms, or*arifing from local injury, producing irritation, which is alfo of the fpafmodic kind. The remedy, I have to lay before the public, is a large and frequently repeated dofe of mulk and fait of hartfhorn, the ufe of which, like that of opium by Mr. Pott, I difcovered rather unexpectedly and by accident. Mulk and the volatile alkali, I muft allow, have been given before my time; but I do not find that they have, generally, been given in fufficient quantities, or ever adminiftered in this fpecies of mortification; fo that the full extent of their virtues, efpecially in this complaint, had not been before ob- ferved or afcertained. Mufk, from the high price it bears, is very liable to frequent adulterations, which](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30793889_0011.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
