The young practitioner : with practical hints and instructive suggestions as subsidiary aids for his guidance on entering into private practice : being modified selections from, with additions to, "The Physician Himself" / by Jukes de Styrap.

  • De Styrap, Jukes.
Date:
1890
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    test of experience during a period of twenty-five years and more, I believe I am fully justified in designating a specific''' for mercurialism. [A brief allusion was then made to iodide of potassium having long been reputed to act as a resolvent and eliminator of mercury from the system by their assumed combination, in the form of an insoluble iodide of mercury, or in the state of a soluble double iodide of mercury and potassium.] I need not trouble you with a recital of the circum- stances that first drew my attention to, or the process of reasoning by which I arrived at the conclusion that much benefit would probably arise in cases of mercurial ptyalism from the administration of the assumed specific ; suffice it to say that in a very annoying case some twenty-six years ago, after vainly trying all the well-known remedies,, I decided on giving sulphur,* it having occurred to my mind that Plummer's pill (then so called, and oft prescribed), containing one grain in five of calomel, was seldom known to produce salivation ; which fact I also remembered to have heard an old medical teacher attribute to the sulphur in the sulphurated antimony, then known as; the oxysulphuret. Success, however, did not crown my efforts until, by careful observation, I learnt the proper mode of administering it, which is in small and repeated doses, special care being taken to diminish the quantity if relaxation of the bowels supervene; for its peculiar action in controlling ptyalism depends upon its being retained in * The late Dr. J. Hughes Bennett of Edinburgh kindly undertook a few years ago to investigate the assumed specific action of sulphur in mercurialism, when ill health unfortunately intervened, and death put an end to his investigation. R 2