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

  • James Hamilton
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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    nerves are different upon different subjects. In some, temporary delirium takes place— in others, palsy or epilepsy supervene, and in many the memory and judgment are more or less permanently impaired. In- stances, too, have occurred, where sudden death has supervened, apparently in conse- quence of a very trifling exertion or agita- tion. Mr Pearson has well described such cases under the title of Erethismus. He says, this state is characterised by great depression of strength, a sense of anxiety aboujc the precordia, irregular action of the heart, frequent sighing, trembling, partial or universal, a small, quick, and sometimes intermitting pulse, occasional vomiting, a pale contracted countenance, a sense of cold- ness ; but the tongue is seldom furred, nor are the vital or natural functions much dis- ordered. It may be alleged, that these are extreme cases, and it must be admitted, that in many instances, those very violent effects do not
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