Volume 1

Medical reports of the effects of arsenic, in the cure of agues, remitting fevers, and periodic headachs [sic] ... Together with a letter from Dr. Arnold ... and another from Dr. Withering / [Thomas Fowler].

  • Thomas Fowler
Date:
1786
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Credit: Medical reports of the effects of arsenic, in the cure of agues, remitting fevers, and periodic headachs [sic] ... Together with a letter from Dr. Arnold ... and another from Dr. Withering / [Thomas Fowler]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Per BY BRT ale C8 oR It may alfo be objected, that to introduce a Poifon to the Public as a general Medicine, is to put a two-edged Sword -into the Hands of the Ignorant. But the fame Argument will equally apply againft feveral of the moft efh- cacious Medicines in daily Ufe, in particular, Opium, and fome of the more active Prepara- tions of Mercury and Antimony. Or if for a Moment, the Force of this Argu- ment be admitted, yet when it is confidered that a Patent Medicine has, for fome Years pait, been largely circulated through the Kingdom, as a Specific for Agues, under the ‘Title of the Taftelefs Ague and Fever Drops ; that from its Effects in Practice there is the firongeft Rea- fon to believeit to be an arfenical Preparation ; and that on this very Ground, it is at prefent imitated in different Parts of the Kingdom, the Objection becomes nugatory, Therefore, if any new and important Medi- cine, either from its active Nature, or an imprudent Adminiftration thereof, is found to be fometimes connected with diftrefling and - deleterious Effects, it becomes highly requifite that