Volume 4

An account of the English nightshades, and their effects. With the original case of Dr. Lambergen ... Also practical observations on the use of corrosive sublimate, and sarsaparilla; on the different effects of mercury crude, and when prepared by chemistry. And some hints ... on the cure of the lues venerea by the secretion of urine instead of salivation / By William Bromfeild.

  • Bromfield, William, 1712-1792.
Date:
1757
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Credit: An account of the English nightshades, and their effects. With the original case of Dr. Lambergen ... Also practical observations on the use of corrosive sublimate, and sarsaparilla; on the different effects of mercury crude, and when prepared by chemistry. And some hints ... on the cure of the lues venerea by the secretion of urine instead of salivation / By William Bromfeild. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    end of this treatife, but poffibly the wanting of opportunities fufficient to eilabliih the fads has prevented them from publifiling their obfervations. There are not any perfons fo blinded by prejudice, as the projedors of fchemes, or the efpoufers of par¬ ticular remedies 5 therefore, to avoid partiality in favour of a fyfiem 1 had adopted, the diaries of the ef~ feds of Mercury on the fecretions, and the fuccefs, were almoft always 'taken by feme other gentlemen of the profefilon. The fads have been confirmed in fuch numbers of in- fiances, that to relate them might make me fufpeded of fome private views. It is poflible, that fome may think me rather too abfolute in my affertions, yet when they are allured that many years experience, and not 311 hypothefis, is the bafis of my au¬ thority, I flatter myfelf that the can¬ dor of the public will free me from any cenfure of that nature. I was the