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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    patient is obliged to undergo a fecond difci- pline, at a time probably when his engage¬ ments in life make a confinement exceedingly inconvenient and improper, and, what is worfe, after he may have unfortunately, tho’ unknowingly, communicated the diforder where he mod wifhed to avoid doing any thing hurtful or injurious. Upon the whole, as far as the venereal poifon can be judged of, it appears that the pox is a diftemper of a peculiar kind 5—that mercury, the common remedy for it, is re¬ markably and fpecifically fuited to deftroy the peculiar poifon occafioning this diftemper, as it very rarely fails to do when properly ad- miniftered;—that the operation of this me¬ dicine is fometimes by the common difcharges of the Ikin, bowels, or kidneys ; and now and then it produces its falutaryeffedts with hardly any apparent alteration in the difcharges of the body 5 but that its natural and moll common as well as moft powerful operation is upon the mouth, by encreafing the quantity of fpittle ; — that where the fymptoms of the difeafe are mild, the diftemper may admit of a cure without the mouth being affedted, or c 4 at