An account of the English nightshades, and their effects. With the original case of Dr. Lambergen ... Also practical observations on the use of corrosive sublimate, and sarsaparilla: on the different effects of mercury crude, and when prepared by chemistry. And some hints ... on the cure of the lues venera by the secretion of urine instead of salivation / [William Bromfield].

  • Bromfield, William, 1712-1792.
Date:
1757
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Credit: An account of the English nightshades, and their effects. With the original case of Dr. Lambergen ... Also practical observations on the use of corrosive sublimate, and sarsaparilla: on the different effects of mercury crude, and when prepared by chemistry. And some hints ... on the cure of the lues venera by the secretion of urine instead of salivation / [William Bromfield]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    quitting the body too foon, frequent¬ ly deprived the patients of their cure. - It is an undeniable fadt, that Mer¬ cury will make its way through the different emundtories of the body, in different fubjedls ; and if the ca¬ pacities of the excretory tubes are fufficiently large to permit the pec¬ cant matter to pafs off from the blood, it is quite immaterial whe¬ ther it. is effedted by means of the falivary glands, the ikin, or the kid- nies. This premifed, it will eafily be determined which channel is moft eligible ; for, exclufive of the danger in Mercury’s attacking the head,, the; torments of a falivation fhould,, if poffible, be avoided : the fkin alone will not anfwer our intention in this country 5 therefore an increafed quan¬ tity of urine will be deemed the preferable means to obtain a cure,, if the experience of others {hould determine in its favour. F 2- T©>