Observations on the use and abuse of mecurial medicines in various diseases / by James Hamilton.

  • Hamilton, James, 1767-1839.
Date:
1819
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Credit: Observations on the use and abuse of mecurial medicines in various diseases / by James Hamilton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    prescribe more than five or six of such eme- tics in succession. The laxative medicines to be advised after the operation of the first emetic, ought to be calculated to act upon the stomach and duo- denum, and therefore should consist of rhu- barb combined with magnesia or jalap, or both together, with some aromatic. After the first dose, if the mustard emetics be not followed by a proper clearance from the bowels, some of the compound extract of colocynth, or some similar preparation, must be exhibited. To restore the healthy condition of the secreted fluids of the stomach (which is the second indication) may be accomplished by a due regulation of the diet and exercise, and by the use of medicines calculated to induce a new action of the vessels and glands, from which the gastric liquor, and other fluids, commonly mixed with the food in the stomach, proceed.