Clinical report on dropsies : with observations explanatory of their pathology and therapeutics ; with an appendix on the theory and treatment of organic disease in general / by Robert Venables.

  • Venables, Robert, M.D.
Date:
1824
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    and friction with an ointment, consisting of half a drachm of periodide of mercury, rubbed up with twelve drachms of lard, extremely powerful. The man to whom I now allude, (Richard Wakefield) is a labourer, living at Hambledon, about three miles from this town. When he first .applied to me, he was obliged to ride into Henley on an ass. The knee was very much contracted, swollen, and extremely painful. The occasional application of leeches, with the internal exhibition of the perio- dide of mercury, and friction above described, comprises the principal part of the treatment in this case. He can now walk to the Dispensary from Hambledon, and can very nearly straighten his knee. The swelling is almost wholly reduced. Surely white swelling is a very severe, and un- doubtedly a very intractable species of disorgan- ization ; and if the mercurial iodides can exert any influence over such affections, what may we expect from them in the more tractable forms of disease, especially when matured experience shall have more fully developed their powers, and the most effectual mode of insuring them ? Periodide of mercury may be formed in the dry way, by the mere trituration of corrosive subli- mate and hydriodate of potass. When I first commenced using these remedies, I was in the habit of directing the periodide to be thus formed