An inaugural dissertation on mercury : submitted to the consideration of the Honourable Robert Smith, Provost, and of the Regents of the University of Maryland / by Martin Fenwick.

  • Fenwick, Martin, 1786-1865.
Date:
May, 1813
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    tation, or usefulness, but in compliance with an express, and indispensible regulation of the uni- versity. This plea is trite; but it is nevertheless just, and will continue to be made so long as it continues to exist. If a sufficient time had been afforded, it might, perhaps, have been rendered less objectionable. The subject is exhaustless; but unfortunately the attention of a student is not so much directed to a single subject as to the acquisition of general information. The preparation for an examina- tion is immediately and vitally important: the imperfections of a thesis may be overlooked, but a lame examination will necessarily and inevita- bly preclude the acquisition of that professional distinction to which the candidate aspires. I am firmly persuaded that some of the pre- parations of mercury, may be administered with more freedom than has heretofore been believ- ed: Calomel is one of these. Several cases are .recorded of its auspicious operation, wherein a much larger dose was given by mistake than was intended. Dr. Stewart, in his Inaugural Disser- tation upon mercury, mentions, that a nurse gave to one of his patients in yellow fever, a drachm of Calomel, instead of rubbing that quantity into