A letter on the medical employment of white mustard seed / by a member of the London College of Surgeons.

Date:
1826
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Credit: A letter on the medical employment of white mustard seed / by a member of the London College of Surgeons. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    NOTES. [1] This case corresponds with those which have been so ably displayed by Dr. Hewett; and he really deserves the tlianks of the Profession for the valuable pathological remarks with which they are accompanied. [2] The pitiable labors of the would-be author, are a con- tinual disgrace to English medical literature. I mean of one whose only talent consists in dressing up in a new language the property of others, and then palming the miserable pilferings upon his brotherhood, as the fruits of his own industry. Let a student purchase half a dozen writers who have treated the same disease (Dyspepsia for instance), and he will find the greater part of each work occupied by the same anatomical and physiological history of digestion, and on coming to the point of a thick 8 vo. tenor twelve shilling volume, the useful matter is easily condensible within a half-sheet of foolscap. — I suppose, in the present crowded state of the profession, it is really neces- sary for a man to write something—any thing—before he can emerge from his natural obscurity:—this is certain, that in these days of empiricism, he who deals most in the marvel- loug, is the most likely to make his fortune. [3] I know a lady with whom one grain and a half of calo- mel would produce the most distressing ptyalism; yet to ano- ther I have given twenty five grains, and repeated it at the end of six hours, without producing any sensible effect; this in it- self would shew that no active medicine can be indiscriminately employed. [4] This learned and distinguished Physician has lately put forth an elementary work on Peptic Philosophy. At page