A treatise on madness and suicide : with the modes of determining with precision mental affections, in a legal point of view, and containing objections to vomiting, opium, and other mal-practices, &c. &c. / by William Rowley.

  • Rowley, William, 1742 or 1743-1806.
Date:
1804
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Credit: A treatise on madness and suicide : with the modes of determining with precision mental affections, in a legal point of view, and containing objections to vomiting, opium, and other mal-practices, &c. &c. / by William Rowley. 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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    Dr. ROWLEY'S other Latin and Englisl Worhs, S(,c. III. A treatise on the causes and cure of swelled legs ; on dropsies j and on the modes of retarding the decay of the constitution in the de. cline of life ; with a copper-plate description of a new-invented instru* inent foi drawing off the water in female dropsies, &c. To which is added, a tract on the absolute necessity of encouraging the study of anatomy, &c. to supply the army, navy, and conntry, with skilful physicians and surgeons, &c. Addressed to the legislature of Great Britain, price 3s. IV. The most cogent reasons why astringent injections, caustic bougies, and violent salivations in venereal affections, should be banished foi evei: from practice, with mild and experienced modes and prescriptions, for treating every species of tiie disease, either by mercury, or alterativf is, with the history of the origin, progress, and present state of the infection, for the use of young practitioners, to prevent many evils lately introduced, &c. and the management of urethral obstructions, &c &c. price 4s. V. A treatise on the hydrocephalus, or watery head of children, wit& ibany cases cured by early discovering the symptoms of that otherwise de- jtructive disease, with diagnostics, prognostics, and remedies; to which arc added, precepts on nursing, and short rule's foi- preventing and treating Infantile complaints, price 2is. SHORTLY WILL BR PUBLISHED. VI. Formula medicameritorum, uSed at the St. Mary-le.bone Infirmary, •with an exhortation to the students, published in the English Schota Medicinm. VII. A description of the famous AfOTHEOSis Homeri, or deification of Homer, a curious antique sculpture, the sublime performance of Ar^ CHELAUS of Priene, above 2000 years ago, dug out of the ruins of the palace of Claudius Drusus, 160 years since, placed in the palace of Co- lonna, at Rome, and, during the French war, removed to London, where it may be purchased for SfiOOl.