Observations on the utility and administration of purgative medicines in several diseases / by James Hamilton.

  • Hamilton, James, 1749-1835.
Date:
1805
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Credit: Observations on the utility and administration of purgative medicines in several diseases / by James Hamilton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    be controverted. Indeed, I efteem myfelf fortu- nate in having documents of this kind to ad- duce, in fupport of a practice, which may be thought to require all the corroboration, which the moil incontrovertible evidence can aftord. Thefe cafes inferted in the different numbers of the Appendix, are dated from the Royal Infir- mary. Again, in further fupport of the exhibition of purgatives, in the difeafes of which I treat, I infert in the proper numbers of the Appendix, hiftories of cafes from my more private prac- tice • —and although they are not fupported by the fame public teftimony, as thofe which are extracted from the records of the Hofpital, yet I trull they will be received with all the credit due to cafes, which reft upon the authority of any individual practitioner. The favour of my friends, who have had the goodnefs to oblige me with communications from their private practice, likewife enables me to give farther evidence of the utility of the prac- tice which I recommend. This is the more gratifying