The experienced botanist or Indian physician : being a new system of practice, founded on botany; containing: 1. A description of medicinal plants ... 2. A treatise on the causes, symptoms and cure of disease incident to the human frame; with a safe and sovereign mode of treatment. For the use of families and practitioners / By J. W. Cooper.

  • Cooper, J. W.
Date:
1840
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Credit: The experienced botanist or Indian physician : being a new system of practice, founded on botany; containing: 1. A description of medicinal plants ... 2. A treatise on the causes, symptoms and cure of disease incident to the human frame; with a safe and sovereign mode of treatment. For the use of families and practitioners / By J. W. Cooper. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the blue pill, combined with opium, for three nights successively, that the whole © quantity amounted to no more than five grains of the mass, salivation began on the fifth day, and notwithstanding every attention, the tongue and gums became swelled to an enormous degree, bleeding ulcers of the mouth and fauces took place, and such excessive debility followed, that for nearly a whole month her life ‘was in the utmost jeopardy. Every practitioner must have met with similar oe cases. | Another common consequence of a very small dose of mercury, is an excessive bowel complaint. In many individuals, a permanent irritability of the stomach and intestinal canal has followed the ac- cidental exhibition of a few SiAips of calomel. Various other sndiheliam affections hive been known to succeed the use of = mereury. Thus, Dr. F ‘alconar mentions, — +7 (Memoirs of the M 3