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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    The other patient, John Mulgrave, was about fixty years of age. He had a cancer¬ ous ulcer likewife on his lower lip, but it was much larger and more malignant than the other, affecting the greateft part of his lip, near a third of which it had deftroyed, fpread- ing likewife into his mouthy and under his chin, and yielding a foetid difcharge. This diforder began about a year before he came to the hofpital, and lately increafed very faft with great hardnefs, and confiderable pains. He took an infufion of Deadly Nightfhade, beginning with one grain, and increaling it to feven. The medicine had not much ef¬ fect upon the natural evacuations. Sometimes indeed it increafed the quantity of his urine, but feldom very confiderably. It occafioned a giddinefs, and affe&ed him feveral times with violent head-achs, and pain in his loins. In general, it heated and difordered him; and, as of courfe the complaint in his lip muft un¬ der fuch circumftances be aggravated, the me¬ dicine was left off. From the preceding cafes and from others which I have heard of, where fometimes a F 4 good