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 infufion of one grain is as much as ever fhould be given for the firfl dofe, and as a quarter of agrainis fometimes found to pro¬ duce a very confiderable effedl it may be quite as well to begin in general with that quantity. The exadtnefs of the quantity may be eafily afcertained byinfufmgone grain of the Night- fhade in four ounces of water, and dividing it afterwards into finaller dofes. The medicine fhould be generally given at night, as the neceffary confinement in bed during the height of the perfpiration and the drowfinefs which fometimes enfues may be difagreeable in the day. It feldom happens that more than one dofe is proper in 24 hours; nor fhould in general the dofe be repeated oftener than every fecond or third night. If it does not operate by flool, fome other medicine fhould be given either with the Nightfhade, or in a reafonable time after it, that the body may never be coflive. And this circumftance is particularly to beattended to. No good etfedt, as far aslhave obferved, can be expedted from this medicine, unlefsit ope¬ rates