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.

  • Peter Clare
Date:
DCCLXXXIV [i.e. 1784]
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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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    ( 5^ ) k VfR. TURNER, in his letter obferves, that VX My method of adminiftering mercurj^ dll always fucceed in cafes hothdn phyfic and urgery, where there is not too great a putre- cency of the blood and juices/’ In fuch habits recommend the fofr, or hard extrad of bark powdered, and applied to the fnrface of the mouth, where, mixing with a watery menftruum, it diffolves, and will be quickly abforbed. .The beft medicines when fwallowed, often create opprefiion and ficknefs in the flomach, and are rejeded by the mouth, under which clr- cumOance little benefit can be derived to the patient, and when they do keep down, if we are to judge often from their non effed on the dif- order, we may fairly conclude they areeonvey- ed, like the grofler food, 'through the ‘body, the' more fine and fubtle parts alone being ab- orbed by the ladeals, and converted into blood, [dcnce probably it is, that the largeft dofes of bark, and other medicines of that dais, often fail in “mortifications of the limbs, for it is not the quantity of medicine taken, -but fo much only as happens to gain admififion into the f)'ftem, on which dependence can be placed. - It is eafy to conceive there may be firuations where it would prove of the higheft importance, to make a little bark, or mercury, go as far as I pdfifible, and with a-different management, an ounce
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