An essay, on the operation of mercury, in the human body; : in which, the manner how salivation is produced, by that medicine, is attempted to be explained: interspersed with observations on the treatment of the venereal disease. / By Robert Maywood, M. D.

  • Maywood, Robert.
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MDCCLXXXVII
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Credit: An essay, on the operation of mercury, in the human body; : in which, the manner how salivation is produced, by that medicine, is attempted to be explained: interspersed with observations on the treatment of the venereal disease. / By Robert Maywood, M. D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    te temperament!, qui in eo opere, ad quartum tc ufque annum, incolumes perdurare valeant ; “ quippe partium omnium tremore concuti- tc untur.” Matth. apud Alfton, pag. 80. V. i. Upon the foregoing principles we can ex- plain the different phenomena attending the ufe of mercury; as, why it produces very mo- derate effedts in fome, whilft in other confti- tutions, the molt violent fymptoms are quickly brought on by it. Why it produces falivation, gripes, or diarrhoeas, in cold countries, fo that patients are obliged to remove to warm ones for the cure of difeafe, in order, that thefe effedts may be obviated; and why alfo, over- relaxing heat, by confinement in clofe rooms, rolling the body in quantities of flannel, and at the fame time an abftemious regimen, hot baths, &c. produce the fame effects as com- plained of in the other extreme. The caufe of failure, alfo, in attempting the cure of dif- eafe by large quantities frequently repeated, (as E thus