Hospital facts and observations, illustrative of the efficacy of the new remedies, strychnia, brucia, acetate of morphia, veratria, iodine, &c. in several morbid conditions of the system; with a comparative view of the treatment of chorea, and some cases of diabetes, a report on the efficacy of sulphureous fumigations in diseases of the skin, chronic rheumatism, &c / by James Lomax Bardsley.

  • Bardsley, James Lomax, 1801-1876.
Date:
1830
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Credit: Hospital facts and observations, illustrative of the efficacy of the new remedies, strychnia, brucia, acetate of morphia, veratria, iodine, &c. in several morbid conditions of the system; with a comparative view of the treatment of chorea, and some cases of diabetes, a report on the efficacy of sulphureous fumigations in diseases of the skin, chronic rheumatism, &c / by James Lomax Bardsley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    doive étre des nouvelles substances dont la chimie et la physiologie ont enrichi recement la matiere médicale, comme il en a cté des préparations antimoniales; c’est a dire, que nous sommes bien persuades qu'un jour ces medicamens seront apprécies comme ils le meritent, et qu’ alors leur usage deviendra général pour le bien de ’humanité*.” it would not have been difficult to have produced a greater number of cases, but it is hoped, that those detailed will be deemed sufficient to shew the properties of the seve- ral remedies brought under consideration. Besides the vegetable principles noticed in the work, the author has made trial of Picrotoxia, Delphia, Solana, and Lupula in several affections ; but their inutility as reme- dies in disease has prevented him from sub- mitting the results of his experiments with them to the public; for a detail of so many failures could prove neither interesting nor instructive. ‘The observations on the treat- * Archives Generales de medicine. —Tome xvi, Ja- nuary, 1828,