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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    to a course of mercurial medicines, exhibits the same buffy crust with blood drawn from a person labouring under pleurisy, and the secretions from the skin or from the kid' neys are greatly increased. In inflammatory complaints, topical con- gestions occur more frequently than increase of secretions, while the reverse of this hap- pens where the inordinate action of the heart and arteries is occasioned by the use of mer- cury. There is another remarkable difference. In inflammatory diseases, the muscular strength, in many instances, continues un- impaired till towards the termination of the complaint. Thus, every practitioner knows that individuals labouring under pleurisy have walked several miles within a few hours of death. But from the time that the influence of mercury becomes evident, the general strength declines rapidly.