A treatise on the effects and various preparations of lead, particularly of the extract of Saturn, for different chirurgical disorders / Translated from the French.
- Thomas Goulard
- Date:
- 1770
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A treatise on the effects and various preparations of lead, particularly of the extract of Saturn, for different chirurgical disorders / Translated from the French. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![The happy effects of the falt of Lead int | Mr. Raulin’s hands, induced other practi-- | tioners to follow the fame track, In the Medicinal Journal of June 1758;, | there ig an interefting letter, addrefled to)| Mr. Vaudermoade by Mr, Boucher, a cele-- | brated phyfician of Lifle in Flanders, who,, after having unfuccefsfully tried all kinds off medicines to fubdue a putrid quinfey, which depopulated the environs of that city, deter-- mined at lait to make ufe of the falt of Lead in one of thefe cafes which he had under hiss infpection. The mortified crufts had fo far prevailed, as to cover a great part of the: tonfils, and the anterior pillars of their parti-- tion. To this end, he mixed four-and-twentyy| grains of the falt of Lead in two ounces off plantain-water, with which he touched ‘thee| crufts five or fix times a day, with a_pencill] made of lint. This remedy, fays Mr. Bou-+ cher, not only prevented the difeafe from gain--| ing ground, but the ulcers were daily obferved! to contract, and the eighth day confolidated 33) and confequently what remained of the dif-- eafe was eafily conquered. A Bur, leaving the experiments of others, t keep to thofe which are our own, we can adi ‘vance that, upon innumerable occafions, the vegeto-mineral water has appeared to us @ fpecific againft inflammations of the throatt, fiuxions on the fame part, irritations and ull cers feated in the mouth, from whatever cauféd they proceed. a 4 Ii](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33010900_0048.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
