Observations on the use of mercury in putrid fevers, and the putrid and ulcerated sore throat / [Sir William Knighton].

  • Knighton, William, Sir, 1776-1836
Date:
[1800?]
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Credit: Observations on the use of mercury in putrid fevers, and the putrid and ulcerated sore throat / [Sir William Knighton]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the bloody and mucus ftools ; caufed the lever to fubfide, and the imces to defcend * But to (hew how often we are deceived by reafonmgs & priori, let the prabtitioner put this procefs upon its trial, and he will find for the mod part, that this very medicine, which, from conjecture, he deemed preju¬ dicial, praftice will ftiew to be a remedy > for the very caufe that produced either Di- arrhcea or Dyfentery, or both, will be cor- rebled, or deftroyed by this preparation ; infomuch, that during the whole courfe of mercury, I have often been under the ne— cellity of giving rhubaib, cream of tartar, and tamarind whey, in oraer to keep the body open ; although previoufly to the ufe of Calomel, the internal difcharges had been frequent, fcetid, and bloody. It is but candid however to own, that Doftor Clifton, fearful of this confequence, and, from one inftance, fufpeaing that his in¬ tention