An essay, on the operation of mercury, in the human body; : in which, the manner how salivation is produced, by that medicine, is attempted to be explained: interspersed with observations on the treatment of the venereal disease. / By Robert Maywood, M. D.

  • Maywood, Robert
Date:
MDCCLXXXVII
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Credit: An essay, on the operation of mercury, in the human body; : in which, the manner how salivation is produced, by that medicine, is attempted to be explained: interspersed with observations on the treatment of the venereal disease. / By Robert Maywood, M. D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    impervious from the concretion of the vefTcls, or too far diftended by it’s indurated contents, fo that the fibres cannot recover their tone. When mercury is either introduced into the habit by the mouth, or applied to the (kin, in cutaneous affections, we can account for it’s fuccefs only on it’s Itimulant power. It aCts as an efcharotic, fome of it’s prepa- rations being fuccefsfully ufed in deftroying fungous flefh, by the fame power. r „-v r ...... , „ ■ * _ • In lhorr, in what way foever we view the operations of this medicine, we mult impute them chiefly to this power; remembering, how- ever, that in the Venereal dileafe, it exerts an antidotal one in conjunction with that power: nor can any thing we have faid, in thus taking a view of the aCticn of mercury, be conftrued in any manner that may tend to the refutation of fuch an opinion ;—an opinion, as already obferved, iupported by faCts. Proceed we now to examine, whether that debility already men- tioned.
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