Observations on poisons : and on the use of mercury in the cure of obstinate dysenteries / by Thomas Houlston.

  • Houlston, Thomas, 1745-1787.
Date:
1787
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Credit: Observations on poisons : and on the use of mercury in the cure of obstinate dysenteries / by Thomas Houlston. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    circumftances in which it was written, every one muft perceive it was unavoidable. To thefe, though not immediately connected with rhe fubjtdf, I added a paper not before pu- blifhed, but. which 1 had fent to the Edinburgh Royal Medical Society, on the good Effects pro- duced by Mercurials in cafes of obftinate Dy- fenteries : to which are fubjoined, Some further Obfervations on the Ufe of the Dry Vomit, and on the fuccefs attending the Method of treating lntermittents recommended by Dr Lind. To thefe arc now added two recent inftances of fuccefs attending the mode of treatment therein recommended. The Appendix confifts of fome other papers of a latter date than thofe contained in the for- mer edition, which have a relation to them; and the infertion of which, it is hoped, will not prove difpleafmg to the Reader. * C ON-