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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    dyfentcric fymptoms, but he unadvifedly took large dofes of laudanum, and drank hot fpiced brandy (with a view, as he faid, of fweating off his fever) by which means it was accended to a high degree of malignity, the dyfentcric fymptoms returned, and he died yellow with fymptoms of a mortification of the inteftines, on the fifth day from the commencement of the continual/form. Whilft on the other hand, it is equally certain that the molt, malignant ftate of fever may be changed to that ftate where fizy blood occurs, and finally, that may be reduced to the diathefis which conftitutes health by no other means than a perfeverance in the antiphlogiftic remedies. In confirmation of which I refer to authors who have employed blood-letting as a remedy in thefe fevers \ 4. From all fevers, under certain circum- ftances affuming fymptoms of the higheft ma- lignity. The fmall-pox, for example, in a good con- stitution and under proper treatment, is acknow- im sad Rulh.