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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    For thefe reafons I was lefs follicitous about giving hiftories of particular cafes. I mentioned indeed two of a cancerous nature, for reafons which are explained in the ac¬ count, and I have now added fome others, as well to ferve as a fpecimen of the falutary effects which may be expected from the me¬ dicine, as to illuftrate and confirm what I have advanced of its common methods of operating. The cafes which are now added are not feledted from many others as particular cafes, but are defigned as an unreferved account of the ftate of thofe patients who are now under my infpedtion in the hofpital, and are either taking the medicine, or, after having taken it with fuccefs, are ready to be difcharged from thence. The event of fome of thefe muff at prefent be neceffarily in doubt; but if, as will appear by the fir-ft of them, the medicine is capable of reftoring ufe to the limbs of a perfon who had been bedrid fe- veral months—if it is capable of removing the anguiih of conftant and violent pains, which nothing elfe had relieved, and of giving reft.