An inaugural dissertation on puerperal fever : submitted to the examination of the Rev. John Ewing, S.T.P. provost, the trustees, and medical faculty, of the University of Pennsylvania, on the 22d day of May, 1798 ; for the degree of Doctor of Medicine / by James Thruston Hubard, of Virginia, honorary member of the Medical Society of Philadelphia.

  • Hubard, James Thruston.
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[1798]
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Credit: An inaugural dissertation on puerperal fever : submitted to the examination of the Rev. John Ewing, S.T.P. provost, the trustees, and medical faculty, of the University of Pennsylvania, on the 22d day of May, 1798 ; for the degree of Doctor of Medicine / by James Thruston Hubard, of Virginia, honorary member of the Medical Society of Philadelphia. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    This remedy is to be employed particularly in fuch cafes as are obftinate and will not yield to the ufual and lefs difagreeable remedies ; and indeed, in every cafe of a very violent difeafe, in conjunc- tion with evacuants, &c. It may be introduced either by the mouth, inunction, or by both, and always in fuch quantities as fpeedily to excite a ptyalifm.* As fome of the acids, particularly the nitric, and oxygenated muriatic, have been lately found to .poffefs the power of producing falivation, and of curing fyphilitic complaints; and as they very pro- bably produce their effects by exciting an action fimilar to the one created by mercury ; and as we account for the curative effects of this lafl medi- cine upon the principle of the peculiar action it excites; they no doubt might be ufed with equal advantage in the prefent difeafe. 2. In the chronic or typhous form of this fever, * The celebrated Italian anatomift Mafcagni, was the firft who advifed the application of mercury to the foles of the feet, as the mod fpeedy external method of introducing this medicine into the fyftem ; and in this manner it has been fuccefsfully ufed. Profeflbr Barton has alfo found the application of a mercurial warn to the palms of the hands, to be extremely efficacious and fpeedy in producing ptyalifm,