A practical treatise on the gonorrhoea : recommending the use of injection, as the most speedy and efficacious method of cure : to which are added, letters from several gentlemen of the faculty, approving the author's new mode of administering mercury / by P. Clare.
- Clare, Peter, 1738-1786.
- Date:
- DCCLXXXIV [i.e. 1784]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A practical treatise on the gonorrhoea : recommending the use of injection, as the most speedy and efficacious method of cure : to which are added, letters from several gentlemen of the faculty, approving the author's new mode of administering mercury / by P. Clare. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![to every thing oily. How many, originally vigorous, deduce their prefent weak bowels, and debilitated conftitutions, from the mifchief oc- cafioned by the aiSlion of mercury on the prima via. Now, whether the calomel is here ab- forbed from the mouth, or not, fuppoiing it a6lually goes into the ftomach, but that the circumftance of its being given in a liquid form, diffufes its particular flimulus, or that this di- mulus is blunted by its ropy vehicle the faiiva, and that]thus only it becomes milder in its ope- ration ; flill the fadl is, that it really is milder, and of courfe, as the medicine is allowed to be equally efficacious, this method is to be preferred to any of the modesof exhibiting mer- cury internally. With thofe who believe that the calomel is abforbed from the inlide of the mouth, and that it does not pafs into the ftomach and in- teflines, there will be flill lefs doubt with re- fpeiSl to the propriety of employing this method rather than the giving calomel, or indeed, any other commonly prefcribed preparation of mer- ' cury, in form of draught, bolus, or pill; for though thefe preparations, taken into the fto- V mach and inteffines, may fometimes be ab- forbed from their internal furface, as well as from any other, yet, from the greater irrita- tability](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22391666_0042.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
