On chronic alcoholic intoxication : with an inquiry into the influence of the abuse of alcohol as a predisposing cause of disease / by W. Marcet.

  • Marcet, W. (William), 1828-1900.
Date:
1862
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Credit: On chronic alcoholic intoxication : with an inquiry into the influence of the abuse of alcohol as a predisposing cause of disease / by W. Marcet. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    INTRODUCTION. The therapeutical properties of zinc having become during the last few years a subject ol much medical interest, I was induced to com- mence in 1855 a series of comparative inquiries respecting the action of oxide of zinc in epi- lepsy, chorea, mild hysteria, paralysis and lead palsy, cases of exhaustion from excessive mental exertions, and in another peculiar chronic dis- order of the nervous system which is the subject of the present treatise. It soon became obvious that in certain of the above diseases the treatment adopted effected a complete recovery, or was attended by a very marked improvement, that in others it was followed by no material benefit, and even in a few