An experimental essay, on mercury : being an inaugural dissertation, submitted to the examination of the Rev. John Andrews ... the Trustees and medical professors of the University of Pennsylvania, on the 3d. day of June, 1805 : for the degree of Doctor of Medicine / by John Douglass.

  • Douglass, John.
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1805
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    will not appear strange, when we consider the celebrity of its authors, and the easy- method which it suggests of explaining the operation of a medicine so little understood; both of which have generally too much in- fluence in leading to the adoption of an o- pinion, without enquiring into its justness. It is this theory that I shall particularly notice, in the following essay, and to which my experiments are principally directed. I have chosen it as the subject of my inaugu- ral dissertation, from a conviction that the experiments of the late Mr. George Lee, the only person who has written in opposition to this doctrine, are not accurate, and conse- quently not sufficient to establish the opi- nion he has advocated. I have repeated the experiments of this gentleman, with some variation, and have made some additional ones, which I thought necessary to arrive certainly at the truth, and to put the ques- tion in dispute beyond doubt. I do not wish it to be understood by this, that I pretend to have ascertained the manner in which the several preparations of mercury, made