Observations on poisons; and on the use of mercury in the cure of obstinate dysenteries / by Thomas Houlston.

Date:
1784
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Credit: Observations on poisons; and on the use of mercury in the cure of obstinate dysenteries / by Thomas Houlston. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    length it happened that mercurial inun&iofe, directed for another patient, were, by miftake, given to hip. He had ufed them only a few times, wjiefqto my great furprize, I found him in a falivation'i I was the lei’s diffatisficd at the miftake, as I thought it probable he might * thence receive eflential benefit : and the event juftified my opinion, for the man foon got quite well. An inftanee this, which might be adduced as a further proof of the good effe&s of mercurials in cafes of obftrudted Vifcera ; though, fuch was the degree of weaknefs of this patient, that, “however defireable a mercu- rial treatment might have appeared, few prac- titioners would have ventured to advife it for a man fo extremely reduced : and though the event was favourable, it would fcarcely be a fufficient junification for adopting fo hazard- ous a pra&ice, in fimilar circumftances. THE E Nt), [