Volume 2

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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    ventured to give it to very young children ; nor to more than about half a dozen out-patients ; nor to a fingle patient belonging to the difpen- fary : but have confined it almoft entirely to the in-patients of the infirmary ; who are under the conftant infpection, and regulation, of the houfe apothecary; and among whom none are ad- mitted under fix years of age. But experience ‘having now taught me to be lefs apprehenfive, I am juft beginning to prefcribe it for out-pati- ents ; and intend, foon, to introduce it into the difpenfary. It is now eleven months fince ; after having tried it in one very bad, and obftinate cafe, which had refifted the powers of the carribean, and red bark, and had at length completely yielded to the arfenical {olution ; ; I began to give full fcope to the ufe of this medicine, and prefcribed it in almoft every cafe which offered. { have now tried it in about eighty cafes of in- termittents ; quotidians, tertians, and quartans: and have feldom known it fail of fuccefs. Ina few inftances, I have feen reafon to lay it afide, and to truft the cure to the red bark, which has fucceeded : but the folution has, I believe, fuc- ceeded in as many inftances, when the red bark has failed. And in no cafe am I fenfible that it ever produced any permanent ill effect ; or any other tranfient inconvenience than naufea, vomiting, griping, and purging ; which were always prevented by care, and attention, in the exhibition of the medicine, from becoming con- fiderable, or in the fmalleft degree alarming. In