An inquiry into the remote cause of urinary gravel / by Alexander Philip Wilson.

Date:
1792
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Credit: An inquiry into the remote cause of urinary gravel / by Alexander Philip Wilson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ *2|5 ] portant than thofe to which it has been at* ^ready applied. There is another remedy, which, From What has been faid, (Experiments xxii. and kxiii.) promifes to be of much advantage in this difeafe. I mean mercury : this medi- j 7 cine is apt to promote the adtion of both the fkin and kidney, fo that it is admirably fuit- ed for the laft of the indications above men- tioned. And the more fo, as it as certainly produces its effe&s, as almoll any medicine we are acquainted with. The only objection which could be urged againft giving mercury in this cafe is, that being a medicine, the ufe of wrhich tends to debilitate the fyftem confiderably, it might be improper in a difeafe which generally de- pends much on debility, and in circumftan- ces