Essays on medical subjects, originally printed separately; to which is now prefixed an introduction relating to the use of hemlock and corrosive sublimate; and to the application of caustic medicines in cancerous disorders / By Thomas Gataker.

  • Gataker, Thomas, -1769.
Date:
1764
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Credit: Essays on medical subjects, originally printed separately; to which is now prefixed an introduction relating to the use of hemlock and corrosive sublimate; and to the application of caustic medicines in cancerous disorders / By Thomas Gataker. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    INTRODUCTION. 11 criminately and without due caution ; the circumftances which may reafonably induce a trial of the Nightfhade, and the impro¬ priety of continuing the ufe of it where it is found to difagree, being in general taken notice of in the following pages, it is unne- eeflary to dwell upon them here. I mu ft, however, obferve, that the opinion, which I publifhed laft of the Nightfhade, has been further confirmed—that it rnay be always tried with perfedt fafety, agreeable to the directions there recommended ; and that in certain cafes, efpecially in fotne obftinate and very painful fores attended with a thin acri¬ monious difcharge, it is capable fometimes of giving relief in the moft extraordinary manner, after every other method in general practice has proved ineffectual. What ufes the phyfician may make of an herb, which often produces the moft remarkable effedts upon the common difcharges of the body, by an infufion of fo fmail a quantity as a quar¬ ter of a grain weight of its leaf, and which, perhaps, has fome other, though yet unde¬ termined, power belonging to it, may here¬ after 3