Observations on the use of the argentum nitratum in chorea Sancti Viti, and epilepsy / communicated to Dr Duncan, in a letter from Thomas Hull.

  • Hull, Thomas.
Date:
[1800]
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Credit: Observations on the use of the argentum nitratum in chorea Sancti Viti, and epilepsy / communicated to Dr Duncan, in a letter from Thomas Hull. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    quent to the time I fent you the cafe, feem to have been in no way violent in regard to her own feelings, notwithftanding her ftrict perfeverance in its ufe, to a very confiderable extent. I cannot difcover, that either her fto- raach or bowels have been in any degree ma- terially affedled. The urinary organs, which at firft feemed to be confiderably ftimulated by this remedy, in a fhort time became total- iy infenlible to its a6lion. Sicknefs, and a enfe of languor, which prevailed at the com- Tiencement, have never fince been induced 3y its operation, fo long as the proportion of he remedy was not increafed. In fome cafes, lowever, it muft be obferved, in order to fup- Drefs fo violenta fpafm, larger dofes of the litrate of lilver may be found neceflary, than ivhat are here employed : even in the pre- ent cafe, the quantity to be given cannot 3xadly be defined, but muft, in a great mea- ure, depend upon the effedts it produces. It s well known, that powerful remedies admi- iiiftered pundually, and in fmall quantities at . time, are oftentimes much more efFedtual han when adminiftered in larger dofes. The •refent complaint, (as far as I have witnefled), I is