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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    forty-two have been radically cured, or had their Fits fufpended, or relieved; I believethat very few Medicines, if any, are to be found among the Rank of Specifics, poffeffed of a more ge- neral curative Influence, than the Mineral Solu- tion in Agues. Be Ged xX General Obfervations and Praétt- cal Concluftons. I SHALL here endeavour to remark fuch Circumftances, as either appear to deferve fome Notice in a curfory Way; or feem not fufficiently pointed, to merit a Place in the foregoing Sections ; and fhall then proceed to clofe the Subject, with a few general practical Conclufions. Had it been announced to the World, a cen- tury or two ago, that by the fimple Contri- vance of a minute Divifion of its Parts, the moit violent mineral Poifon then known, had been found experimentally to be a Medicine of moft furprifing activity and efficacy, yet fafe in its Adminiftration; the Account would hardly have been believed: neverthelefs this is really the Cafe at prefent with Refpect to Arfenic. We find that the thirteenth Part ofa Grain of this Mineral is an efficient Dofe for an Adult; that