Medical sketches ... / by George Kerr.

  • Kerr, George.
Date:
1818
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Medical sketches ... / by George Kerr. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    general use among the Greek, Roman and Eastern physicians for many centuries ; yet, as in all ages medical men have in some things differed in opinion, we find Alexander Trallianus, who lived long be¬ fore the time, representing it as dangerous, and recommending as a substitute in the cure of melancholy madness, the Lapis Armeniacus. The commentator on Dios- corides Matthiolus, who lived about the middle of the sixteenth century, briefly noticing the dangers apprehended from the use of this remedy, adds, “ Caeterum albi “ quoque Hellebori dilutum exhibuimus “ quibusdam Melancholicis, magno sane 46 successu, nullo tamen aegrotantium in- “ commodo, nullaque cum noxa/’ I may have been thus successful, he goes on to say, because the Hellebore growing in the neighbourhood of Trent, may be milder