The Edinburgh new dispensatory ... including complete ... translations of the ... London pharmacopoeia, published in 1791; Dublin pharmacopoeia, published in 1794; and of the new ed. of the Edinburgh pharmacopoeia, published in 1803 ... / [Edited, with extensive alterations and additions] By Andrew Duncan, jun.

  • Lewis, William, 1708-1781
Date:
1803
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Credit: The Edinburgh new dispensatory ... including complete ... translations of the ... London pharmacopoeia, published in 1791; Dublin pharmacopoeia, published in 1794; and of the new ed. of the Edinburgh pharmacopoeia, published in 1803 ... / [Edited, with extensive alterations and additions] By Andrew Duncan, jun. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    fiilphuric acid are then poured. The fumes of nittic acid imme- diately begin to rife. This quantity will fill with vapour a cube of ten feet; and by employing a fufiicient number of pipkins, the tumes may be ealily made to fill every part of a ward of any ex- tent. After the fumigation, ventilation is to be carefully employ- ed. For introducing this praiHce, Dr Carmichael bmyth has received from the Britifh Parliament a reward of five thoufand pounds. The internal ufi; of thefe acids has alfo been lately much ex- tended. la febrile difeafes, water acidulated with them forms one of the belt .antiphlogifiic and antifeptic drinks we are ac- quainted with. Hoftman and Eberhard long ago employed it with very great fuccefs in malignant and petechial fevers; and in the low typhus, which frequently rages among the poor in the luburbs ct Edinburgh, we have repeatedly given it with unequi- vocal advantage, before the contemptible quackery of Reich was fo undefervingly retvarded by the King of Pruflla. In the liver- complaint of the Ealt Indies, and in fyphilis, nitric acid has alfo been extolled as a valuable remedy by Dr Scott, and the evident benefits lefulting from its ufe in thefe complaints, has given rife to a theory, that mercury only ads by oxygenizing the fyftem. It is certain, that botli the primary and fecondary fymptoms of fy- philis have been removed by the ufe of thefe acids, and that the lor met fymptoms have not returned, or been followed by any fe- condary iymptoms. But in many inftances they have failed, and It is doubtful it ever they elfefted a permanent cure, after the fe- condary Iymptoms appeared. Upon the whole, the opinions of Mr Pearfon on this fubjecl, lately agitated with fo much keen- nefs, appear to us fo candid and judicious, that we lliall infert them here. He does not think it eligible to rely on the nitrous acid in the tieatment of any one form of the lues venerea ; at the lame time, he by no means wifhes to fee it exploded as a medi- cine altogether nfelefs in that difeafe. When an impaired ftate ot the conftitution renders the iiitrodudlion of mercury into the fyftem inconvenient, or evidently improper, the nitrous acid will be found, he thinks, capable of reftraining the progrefs of the dif- eafe, while at the lame time it will improve the health and ftrength of the patient On lome occafions, this acid may be gi- ven in conjunttion with a mercurial courfe, and it will be found to fupport the tone of the ftomach, to determine powerfully to the kidneys and to counteract in no inconlideniblc degree the elFedts 4>f mercury on the mouth and fauces.