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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    foon relapfed. At length it happened that mer- curial inun&ions, directed for another patient, were, by miftake, given to him. He had ufed them only a few times, when, to my great fur- prife, I found him in a falivation. I was the lefs dfflatisfied at the mifiake, as 1 thought it probable he might thence receive effential benefit : and the event juflified my opinion, for the man foon got quite well. An inftance this, which might be adduced as a further proof of the good effeds of mercurials in cafes of obftru&ed vifeera ; tho* fuch was the degree of weaknefs of this patient, that however defirable a mercurial treatment might have appeared, few practitioners would have ventured to advife it for a man fo extreme. Iy reduced: and though the event was favour- able, it would fcarcely be a fufficient juftification for adopting fo hazardous a praftice in fimilar circumftances. Two cafes, which have fallen under my care in the Liverpool Infirmary fince the firft publica- tion of this paper, tend, in my opinion, very F 3 for-