Observations on the hepatitis of India, and on the prevalent use of mercury in the diseases of this country / by William Saunders.

  • Saunders, William, 1743-1817.
Date:
1809
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Credit: Observations on the hepatitis of India, and on the prevalent use of mercury in the diseases of this country / by William Saunders. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    may perhaps be explained by supposing they arise from an indigenous, and local 0 poison, or miasma, peculiar to that country, unlike any thing known in any i other part of the world, even under similar latitudes and temperatures; and for which mercury is as much an anti- dote as to the syphilitic poison.