A treatise on bilious diseases and indigestion : with the effects of quassy and natron.

  • Gibson, John.
Date:
1799
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Credit: A treatise on bilious diseases and indigestion : with the effects of quassy and natron. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

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    HAVIN G been appointed furgeon £>{ • a man of war, by Lord Rodney, when the fleet went down to Jamaica, after the memorable adion of the 12,'h April 1782, I was then left to the freedom of my own will in the treatment of the diieafes of thofe intruded to my care ; and as Bilious Complaints were the mod general in the Wed Indies, my attention was more imme- diately directed to the cure of them. I was at firfl naturally led to follow the mode of pradice laid down by authors, who had wrote upon the difeafes of warm cli- mates ; and being at that time unexperienced in the treatment of the difeafes of thefe climes, now feventeen ye. rs ago, I thought I was doing judice to thofe intruded to my care in following the pradice of gentlemen of greater experience than myfelf; but in fo doing I found a deficiency in their treat- ment of bilious complaints, particularly after ‘^®C had got the bile fufficiently diluted, in not finding any medicine in thefe authors to anfwer the intention of drengthening B the