The safe dose of the salicylates / by Frederick Henry Alderson.

  • Alderson, Frederick Henry.
Date:
[1887?]
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Credit: The safe dose of the salicylates / by Frederick Henry Alderson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    N /o THE SATE DOSE OF THE SALICYLiTES. FREDERICK HENRY ALDERSON, M.D., Vice-President of the West-London Medico-Chirnrgio Read before the West-London Medico-Chirurtficaf. Dece The introduction of the salicylates into our pharma- copoeia has proved satisftetory to the profession, to the credit of medicine, . and of considerable benefit to the prescribed saiioylic acid or its soda salt with very appre- ciable benefit, earning alike the gratitude of the patient, and the self-conscious satisfaction of having given relief, and not infrequently even cutting short the disease. These happy results have of late been somewhat clouded by the doubts that have been thrown by correspondents in our medical papers, and various annotations that have appeared in our medical press as to the occasional danger of the salicylates. At first the serious symptoms or toxic eftects that were observed occasionally to follow the administration of this medicine were thought due to impurity in the manufacture of the drug, but BY