A dissertation on the salutary effects of mercury, in malignant fevers / by James Stuart, a native of Virginia, and resident member of the Academy of Medicine of Philadelphia.

  • Stuart, James, 1771 or 1772-1809.
Date:
1798
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Credit: A dissertation on the salutary effects of mercury, in malignant fevers / by James Stuart, a native of Virginia, and resident member of the Academy of Medicine of Philadelphia. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ( * ) to the Gangrenous flate of fever.J The term malignant probably arofe from the ferocious, or malignant countenance of the patient, obfervable in thi3 ftate of fever. A cafe is faid to be more or Iefs mahVnant In proportion to the violence of thefe fymptoms, and as a greater or lefs number occur in the fame time and patient; but, unfortunately nei- ther writers or practitioners have been fo unanimous in their opinions or practice, of the proximate caufe, or in their methods of cure in this flate of fever. Hence Sydenham complains of the practice of his cotempories, Cum in eaas febres prefertim Maligna dicantur, in quibus intenfioris prae ceteris imflammationis gradus confpiciatur, hinc medici fe ad ufum '« cardiacorum, et alexipharmacorum nefcio quorum contulerunt, quo fcilicet per cutis poros expeilant, quod fomneant venerium (hoc enim eft dicendum, nifi malint verbis ludere, quam illud quod poteft intelligi, ferio proponere^ ex quo factum eft ut regimen calediffimum, mcthodumque huic parem, iis >6 morbis adaptaverunt, quss frigidiiTima turn % pr. Rufli's proximate Czi.fes of Tevtr.