Volume 3

Medical reports of the effects of arsenic, in the cure of agues, remitting fevers, and periodic headachs [sic] ... Together with a letter from Dr. Arnold ... and another from Dr. Withering / [Thomas Fowler].

  • Fowler, Thomas, 1736-1801.
Date:
1786
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Credit: Medical reports of the effects of arsenic, in the cure of agues, remitting fevers, and periodic headachs [sic] ... Together with a letter from Dr. Arnold ... and another from Dr. Withering / [Thomas Fowler]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Means, the medicinal Courfe of the Solution may often be fuccefsfuly continued, without di- minilhing the Dofes. Sometimes it will be found neceffary to in- termit the Ufe of the Solution for a Dofe or two, or even a Day or two, when the operative Effects have proved very confiderable. Such Neceili- ty, however, is always very unwelcome, when it happens before the Fits are fufpended ; be- caufe it will generally protract the Cure. On the contrary, if after the Fits have keen fuf- pended, that Neceffity fhould occur, it will be of very little Confequence 3 becaufe, for the moft Part, there will be very fufhcient ‘Time to refume the Medicine, before a Relapfe may take Place, Indeed, at the End of the firft five Days of ‘Treatment, provided there has been a Sufpen- fion of the Fits, and the Solution has occafion- ed any operative Effects, a fhort Sufpenfion -from its Ufe feems no more than prudent, by Way of preventing, either their Increafe or Accumulation; and alfo to allow Time for fuch Effects, as are already produced to abate, and go entirely off, before the Medicine Le again adminiftered, Thefe Intervals however, in the Courfe of the Solution, may frequently be employed to the Advantage of the Patient. For in many Cafes it will be found ferviceable (efpecially in cachectic Habits) to exhibit twice a Day fome N 32 grateful