Gout and rheumatic gout : a new method of cure / by John W. Foakes.

  • Foakes, John Weston.
Date:
1878
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Credit: Gout and rheumatic gout : a new method of cure / by John W. Foakes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    APPE]::^DIX. Dr. Bennett’s Rejoort, sliglitly abridged to .save space, is taken from the British Medicul Journal of May 8th, 1869. It runs thus :— “ Conchisions regarding the Cholagogue Action of Mercury. “ The foregoing observations seem to us clearly to show that “ blue pill, calomel, and corrosive sublimate, when given to “ dogs in either small, gradually augmented, or in large doses, “ do not increase the biliary secretion ; they do not even influ- “ ence it so long as neither purgation nor impairment of health “ are produced, but they diminish it as soon as they produce “ either or both. It may be urged that, although we have “ proved this regarding dogs, it does not follow that on man “ these drugs will have the same action. It must be admitted “ that some animals are altogether insensible to remedies which “ produce powerful effects on others; that different doses are “ often requisite to occasion similar results ; and that there may “ be peculiarities so very decided as to render it impossible to “ infer what will be the action of a remedy on one animal “ from its influence upon another. But have we any reason “ to conclude that in the present' instance there exists such “ difference in the action of mercury as to prevent any inference “ being drawn from the dog regarding man ? All the facts with “ which we are acquainted show that it is legitimate to infer “ that the action of mercury ought to be regarded as similar