A treatise on mercury, exhibiting its wonderful powers when taken in a crude state / translated ... by an English medical gentleman. With observations in a preface, by R. Carlile.

  • Belloste, Augustin, 1654-1730
Date:
1843
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Credit: A treatise on mercury, exhibiting its wonderful powers when taken in a crude state / translated ... by an English medical gentleman. With observations in a preface, by R. Carlile. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PUBLISHER’S PREFACE. Having published this Treatise on Mercury in Nos. 22 and 23, Vol. 9, of '^The Republican,” the interest excited by it, and the good done in several instances by the use of the medicine, have created a sort of universal demand for the treatise. The Nos. of “ The Republican” speedily ran out of print, a second edition has shared the same fate, whilst the anxiety to obtain the treatise is so great, and the subject so important, that it seems like an act of criminality towards the community, longer to withold a third edition. That edition is now presented, and the reports which the Publisher has received from all parts of the country encourage him to warrant the correctness of the experience and judgment of the author of the Treatise. From Fartown, in the neighbourhood of Huddersfield, Alexander Wilson reports the cure of an internal abscess. He wrote to the Publisher for advice, immediately on the publication of the Letter to Mrs. Fry, in No. 16, Vol. 8, of The Republican.’’ He used about a quarter of pound of the Crude Mercury, and found himself cured; and la¬ ments that his father had not known the remedy, who was cut off about two years before, by a similar disease, after a failure in application to every medical man of note in that neighbourhood. Mr. Wilson has since used a full pound to remove other complaints, and is so far enthusiastic as to look upon it as a sort of panacea. It may be worthy of observation, that he took the Mercury simply on the recommendation of the Publisher, and before he had seen the Treati^. From Birmingham, there are two cases reported though the names have not been yet received. One case of deafness, which the patient felt removed by a cracking of the viscous matter in the ears, about two hours after swallowing some Mercury. The other a case of bad legs, of forty-five years standing. The patient is represented as having been a cripple, a bachelor, and one who had passed a miserable life to sixty years of age. The use of