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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    One cannot however recommend the find! ob- fervanceof this'author’s (q) preparatory courfe. Every judicious pradiitioner will, it is prefum¬ ed, according to the date of the conftitution, diredt fome gentle evacuations previous to the ufe of the mercury. As thefe will empty and cool the body, they will be a likely means to moderate any painful fymptoms which may enfue, and the mercury will adl with greater freedom in the circulation. To clean and foften the fkin by the warm bath may alfo be proper, in order for the more eafy admiffion of the mercurial particles when the ointment is rub’d upon it; and in fome few inftances it may be thought expedient to repeat the ufe of the bath : but you will find in Aftruc that the work is very far from being finifh’d here, Befides bleeding and purging, the patient is to be bathed twice a day if he can bear it, and an hour or more each time : the number of thefe bathings to be from ten to twenty. He is likewife to take draughts or medicated broths every morning, then bleed and purge again ^ and in bilious habits bathe once or (?) p- 459* twice;