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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    ( *4 ) out; fometimes no organ or vifcus may be affeded at all, but the fubtle poifon, (for fo it may be termed) not expelled by the febrile force at firft, nor correded af¬ terwards, nor diffipated by Natures own effeds, may be totally deftroyed by another fever; and then the habit will be reno¬ vated. I have known the laft elfay of a fever affed, in a lad, the denfe part of the tibia in a node like appearance, and that node accompanied with acute pain and inflammation, hath been removed by mercurial ointment, well rubbed on the part; and when the fever hath not been carried off, either through the kidneys, the pores, the wind-pipe, or the inteftines, I have known a religious melancholy fuc- ceed, and harrafs the patient, and the caufe being merely mechanical, and fubtle, of a nature not difcernible, nor to be under- flood i the diforder* now become a new and