The homoeopathic materia medica : arranged systematically and practically / by A. Teste ; translated from the French and edited by Chas. J. Hempel.

  • Teste, Alph. (Alphonse), 1814-
Date:
1854
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    INTRODUCTION. blood-vessels, without being immediately expelled by suppuration or gangrene at the risk of life, when we see madder (which is a foreign principle, not very hurtful, it is true, still not assimilable,) penetrate so far into the tissues of animals which had been fed on this root, that its presence can even be discovered in the bones to which it imparts a red color ? But this is trifling. Who does not know that, in many cases of poisoning with arsenic, the poison has been discovered by Marsh's test, not only in the intestinal canal, the liver, spleen, bladder, &c, but also in the blood, the muscular tissue ? In all such cases, the poison had passed through all the ramifications of the vascular apparatus without occasioning either suppuration or gangrene, or even immediate death I have seen a gilder who had left his shop for upwards of six months, and who had, of course ceased to be exposed to the vapors of mercury but whose body was still impregnated with this poison to such an extent that every time he took a hot vapor bath the mercurial emanations which this bath occa- sioned literally whitened a gold ring which this patient carried on his finger. A perceptible quantity of mercury must, therefore, have been absorbed, and must have remained, for six months, at least, in the body of this unfortunate workman, without occasion! ing either gangrene, suppuration, or any other febrile penochcal paroxysm* of neuralgia in the left Sof the ramum and face; trembling of the limbs; 2h swelhng at the left elbow; general emaciation, no