Objections to the mercurial treatment of malignant cholera / W. M. Wilson.

Date:
1834
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Credit: Objections to the mercurial treatment of malignant cholera / W. M. Wilson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    OBJECTION* TO THE MERCURIAL TREATMENT t>r MALIGNANT CHOLERA. The re-appearance of Malignant Cholera in the vicinity of this town, and its apprehended return among ourselves, induced rae, lately, to commu- nicate to the Public, the result of the experience which had been gained while the disease prevailed here in the year lKfc.\ With a view to the rapid and extensive circulation of this knowledge through the Province of Ulster, the quarter wherein the epidemic had, of late, widely diffused itself, i availed myself of the medium of a provin- cial newspaper; but the facts which I have to communicate, and the inferences deductible there- from, appear to me of too important a nature, and bear too closely on some of the dearest interests of mankind, to he restricted to the limited circu- lation of a provincial journal; and the withhold- ing them from the world, might justly subject the individual to the imputation of even worse than in- difference to the welfare of his species. I had fondly hoped that this awful visitation, like the pestilence of old which swept over the globe. A.