Volume 1

A supplement to Observations on the internal use of the nightshade / [Thomas Gataker].

  • Gataker, Thomas, -1769.
Date:
1757
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A supplement to Observations on the internal use of the nightshade / [Thomas Gataker]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    refponds with the Experiments of others as nearly as the Effects of any Medicine can be expected to do in different Confti^ tutions, and under different Circumftances and States of Health. k • . t , In refpeCt to its Ufes, as the Nightfhade is now found to have no fpecific Properties, it is not to be confidered as relative only to one Difeafe, but to be regarded as it may affeCt the common Difcharges of the Body : Of courfe it is to be given difcre- tionally like other Medicines which ope¬ rate by Stool, Perfpiration, or Urine, in fuch a Manner and on fuch Occafions as the Prefcriber fhall judge proper. But, as I have obferved in my Account, that in fom.e Inftances this Medicine had been . found fcrviceable in particular Difor- ders, and as I have given fome Cafes rela¬ ting to thofe Diforders, I fhall now add fuch other Remarks as more Experience and Reflection have fuggefted to me, and which may ferve more fully to explain what I have there intimated. 4 The