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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    imperceptible, every ftimulating application to the furiace, favours our views, for this purpofe are to be applied finapifrns and blifters to the extremities; and cloths wrung out of hot brandy, faturated with feafalt, to be fucceffivclylaid over every part of the body, and renewed as often as they become cool. Hot bricks or jugs filled with hot water arc alfo here applied with advan- tage. When we have produced the defired efFect from the ufe of one or all thefe modes combined, it fometirnes happens, that the profufe difcharge from the falivary Glands, and the intolerable pains in the jaws and teeth, become objects of attention. When this occurs, two indications prefent. i. It is necefiary to mitigate pain. 2. To moderate the difcharge and heal the local injury. The fir ft intention, as we are, from the nature of difeafe which preceded and from ap- prehenfions of rclapfe, debarred from the inter- nal ufe of opium, is anfwered by topical applications. For this purpofe opium is dif- folved in water and the mouth waflied frequent- ly therewith, but I have lately found from ex- perience that milk anfwers the intention much better than fimple water, my firft inducement