A treatise on putrid, malignant, infectious fevers; and how they ought to be treated; founded on nearly fifty year's practical experience with an exposure of some fatal medicial errors in these dreadful diseases. To which is added, the important use of the gun-shot seton needle / [William Rowley].

  • Rowley, William, 1742-1806
Date:
1804
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Credit: A treatise on putrid, malignant, infectious fevers; and how they ought to be treated; founded on nearly fifty year's practical experience with an exposure of some fatal medicial errors in these dreadful diseases. To which is added, the important use of the gun-shot seton needle / [William Rowley]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ERRATA. A Page 12, 16, 21, 29, ■ 46, 47, 48, 51, 54, ■ 62, 106, 114, line 11, crasis. — 16, vertigo. — 9, characteristic* —. 1, Mindereri. — 19, it is not an antiseptic purgative.* — 16, git — Id, coch. —*• 19, a gravis on bene. — 2, 11 June, 1792. —- 8, Mindereri. — 20, Devizen. —• 21, JMindererus’s. * The purges have been introduced out of compliance to some practitioners of respectability; but I never used them, there- fore cannot be responsible for their efficacy. Indeed, lately some practitioners have become calomel mad, and boldly give it in all cases; and though I was one of the first who united calomel, and James's Powder, in 1761, for pleurisy, perip- neumony, rheumatism, &c. with great success, I have always doubted their use in putrid diseases, though beneficial in small doses, in liver complaints, &c. but large doses of calomel have been rejected by all skilful surgeons for many years, in venereal complaints, from the injuries done to the constitutions. See my Treatise called Cogent Iteasons against all rough Practices in venereal affections, with prescriptions in all cases, &c. &c. In the doctrines of mineral acids, I can affirm, that the MURfATic, or nitrous, are quite inefficacious in putrid dis- eases, when compared with the sulphuric or vitriolic acid. The former are veTy useful in baths for the gout, fee my Treatise.