A treatise on hydrencephalus, or dropsy of the brain / by James Carmichael-Smyth.

  • Smyth, James Carmichael, 1741-1821.
Date:
1814
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Credit: A treatise on hydrencephalus, or dropsy of the brain / by James Carmichael-Smyth. 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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    videri omrino lympham cerrbri per venas rubras ad cor revehi.—Vid. id. torn. iv. p. 184. P. Dr. Monro, Senr, of Edinburgh, whose cha- racter as a physician and anatomist, stands too high to acquire any addition from my praise; in a work, which he published in the year 1797, mentions two and twenty cases of Hydrence- phalus, in which he had unsuccessfully employed mercury, and was then led, from the same ana- logy with myself, to recommend the combining this medicine with squills or foxglove, to deter- mine its operation to the kidneys. I adopted this practice for the first time in the year 1785, and the two cases where I employed it with suc- cess, occurred in the years 1785 and 1787. But as I published no account of these at the time, he could not have taken the idea from me ; and it is equally apparent from the dates, that I could not have taken any hint from what was