Hospital facts and observations : illustrative of the efficacy of the new remedies, strychnia, brucia, acetate of morphia, veratria, iodine, &c. in several morbid conditions of the system : with a comparative view of the treatment of chorea, and some cases of diabetes : a report on the efficacy of sulphureous fumigations in diseases of the skin, chronic rheumatism, &c. / by James Lomax Bardsley.

  • Bardsley, James Lomax, 1801-1876.
Date:
1830
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Credit: Hospital facts and observations : illustrative of the efficacy of the new remedies, strychnia, brucia, acetate of morphia, veratria, iodine, &c. in several morbid conditions of the system : with a comparative view of the treatment of chorea, and some cases of diabetes : a report on the efficacy of sulphureous fumigations in diseases of the skin, chronic rheumatism, &c. / by James Lomax Bardsley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    doive etre des nouvelles substances dont la chimie et la physiologic ont enrichi recement la matiere m^dicale, comme il en a ^te des preparations antimoniales; c^est a dire, que nous sommes bien persuades qu'un jour ces medicamens seront apprecies comme ils le meritent, et qu' alors leur usage deviendra general pour le bien de Thumanite*/^ It would not have been difficult to have produced a greater number of cases, but it is hoped, that those detailed will be deemed sufficient to shew the properties of the seve- ral remedies brought under consideration. Besides the vegetable principles noticed in the work, the author has made trial of Picrotoxia, Delphia, Solania, and Lupulia in several affections ; but their inutility as reme- dies in disease has prevented him from sub- mitting the results of his experiments with them to the public; for a detail of so many failures could prove neither interesting nor instructive. The observations on the treat- * Archives Generales de medicine.—Tome xvi, Ja- nuary, 1828.