Medical arguments, approving Clare's mode of absorption.

  • Clare, Peter, 1738-1786.
Date:
[1780?]
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Credit: Medical arguments, approving Clare's mode of absorption. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    IS MEDICAL ARGUMENTS, * jU K . ' ■ - APPROVING . CLARE’S MODE-of ABSORPTION. ' 1 ’ ** : v . ’ ee T^EOPLE with very tender bowels, may bear the Calomel much better in this form, than when given in pills, boluffcs,” &c. Dr. Hunter* cc How many, originally vigorous, deduce their prefent weak bowels and debilitated conftitutions, from the mifchief occafioned by the acffion of Mercury on the primae vise !” Mr. Cruikjhank. There are few perfons who have been fo unfortunate as to take large quantities of Mercury in the ufual way, who do not exhibit me¬ lancholy Proofs of it’s baneful effeils on the ftomach and bowels. By your mode of adminiftering it, thefe effects are obviated, while it is much more cleanly, and agreeable, than the common method of apply¬ ing it to the Ikin/5 Dr. Buchan. • • v \ ec I prefcribed your Mercurial liniment to a patient, the benefit of which he very foon experienced, by recovering in the fpace of a fort¬ night, perceiving not the fmalleft inconvenience from it’s ufe : On the contrary, he found his bowels perfectly free from any attack on them, the ufual attendants on former methods of treatment, which he had frequently experienced previous to this trial/' Dr. Krohn. A very