A treatise on mercury, exhibiting its wonderful powers when taken in a crude state / translated ... by an English medical gentleman. With observations in a preface, by R. Carlile.

  • Belloste, Augustin, 1654-1730
Date:
1843
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Credit: A treatise on mercury, exhibiting its wonderful powers when taken in a crude state / translated ... by an English medical gentleman. With observations in a preface, by R. Carlile. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the Mercury enabled him to throw away his bandages, his flannels, and all superfluities; gave soundness to his le^s ; and filled the old gentleman with notions of marriage! in which, if he does not take, care and make a prudent choice, he may find a worse disease than a pair of bad legs. This case is not altogether unlike that of the Old Turkish Cour¬ tier, who fancied such great benefit from the pills of an English physician, as to contemplate the necessity of in¬ creasing the number of his wives to the full amount sanc¬ tioned by the Prophet. From Bristol, there is the testimony of a medical man, that he has seen many singular cures performed by the Crude Mercury. Other medical men have borne similar testimony; but it must be confessed, that the majority scout its use ; though they cannot give a solid reason for it. From Exeter a long paper has been received, detailing its powers on a child of five years old, that was kept in a constant state of fever by worms, perhaps combined with other ailments, and that the child is now restored to a state of regular health, after discharging several worms. The mother of the same child swallowed half an ounce of Mercury, whilst under a violent nausea, which had been brought on by the maternal act of assisting another female in a distressing case of abortion, and it instantly put a stop to the sickness, though a momentary fever was the conse¬ quence of the reaction of the Mercury ; still all went off well through the natural course. These persons are so much delighted with the powers of Mercury, as to resolve to use it in all cases. The case of James Herd, of Aberdeen, communicated by himself, who was cured of dreadful ulcers of twenty-five years standing, is the best answer to medical men who proclaim its inefficacy in any case. This case may be found in No. 3, Vol. 11 of “ The Republican.” Other equally interesting cases may be found in ‘‘The Republican,’’ too numerous to be copied in this preface. The only hitherto unpublished cases are, the cure of the gout in a bookseller of the neighbourhood of Sunderland, and of a liver com¬ plaint in a Lady who had been a great sufferer and found no relief by other medical assistance. The Publisher confesses, that the reports he has received of the powers of Mercury, in its crude state, are more