Reports principally concerning the effects of the nitrous acid in the venereal disease, by the surgeons of the Royal Hospital at Plymouth, and by other practitioners / published by Thomas Beddoes, M.D.

  • Beddoes, Thomas, 1760-1808.
Date:
1797
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Credit: Reports principally concerning the effects of the nitrous acid in the venereal disease, by the surgeons of the Royal Hospital at Plymouth, and by other practitioners / published by Thomas Beddoes, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    two grains of opium every fix hours, and a quart of the decoction of woods, to be taken daily. He was kept on that courfe without gaining ground in any refpecl, to the 12th day April: he was ordered then mercurials in fmall dofes, combined in different forms; various fumigations and poultices without the leaf): fuc- cefs, until the 14th day of May, when he com- plained of his being a great deal worfe ; fo weak that he could not quit his bed, or only be helped out to have it made once a day ; his diarrhoea ftill continued, his cough and fweats increafed, his appetite was entirely gone ; he had naufea, excruciating pains in his legs and arms at night, and was exceedingly reduced: in this flate he was ordered to leave off his bark, decoction of woods, opiates &c. and to trull entirely to the follow- ing drink : Acidi nitrofi dracbmam ifs Syrupi fimplicis uncias yiii. Aquas fontanas libras ij. M. bibat quotidie. Before he had taken this nitric medicine twelve days, he thought his pains were lefs fevere, and