Two letters to Dr. Jones on the composition of the Eau médicinale d'Husson / By James Moore.

  • James Moore
Date:
1811
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Credit: Two letters to Dr. Jones on the composition of the Eau médicinale d'Husson / By James Moore. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    deserve to be restored to their pristine pharmaceutical rank. They are celeb:ated for their virtues by our earliest medical wri¬ ters. To go no farther back than Are- tieus who flourished about the reign of Trajan, you will find in his excellent work on chronic diseases, the following very remarkable p ssage. To gouty per- (i sons Hellebore is the great remedy, “ especially in the first fits: but if the dis- ic ease shall have existed for many years, or «■ shall have been transmitted through ances- i( tors, it accompanies the patient to his <{ death.” It thus appears that Aretaeus was familiar with the use of Hellebore in the gout, * K«1 yap xal roicri noSaypixoitri iX\e<~&pog rri ftJ. yet. cixog, aXXa 4V rrifft 'rrpiurvcri npocSoXyeri Toy Tra^eos’ riv $1 ex 7roXXwy fj.lv 7]J>I yjpivwv eVy nTup xctl lx$ict$e£giog TrciTfpwv jpctvvy $'VVct7to9vt]Gxu l APETAIOT B*|0X: £: Ktp: j/3. n voucrop.