The cold water cure / by Edwin Lee.

  • Lee, Edwin, -1870.
Date:
1844
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Credit: The cold water cure / by Edwin Lee. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    to the same thing, from the homoeopathic regi- men,—or from some accidental circumstance, as change of air, scene, &c., or till, in other cases, the general health is seriously impaired, and not unfrequently a foundation laid for the super- vention of organic disease of important parts. The small and daily repeated doses of this agent, which it is the practice of some to recom- mend in the majority of dyspeptic cases, and which have been considered to be comparatively harmless, are more pernicious from the gradual accumulation of mercury in the system, than larger doses given at longer intervals, as these are carried off by the increased alvine secretion which they produce. Let me not he misunder- stood in the preceding remarks, as wishing to de- preciate the proper employment of medicines, and of one of the most efficient agents we possess for the treatment of many diseases, both medical and surgical, in which large quantities of mercury are often exhibited with great advantage; it is against the too indiscriminate use of powerful medicines by some practitioners, and by non- professional persons, especially in cases of sto- mach and bowel derangement depending upon chronic irritation of the mucous membrane or morbid susceptibility of their nerves, and in nervous affections occurring in the young and