Three letters on medical subjects : addressed to the Reverend Gilbert Ford, Ormskirk, Lancashire. Containing I. An account of the effects of an aloetic medicine in the gout and other chronical complaints. II. A practice which has been successful in the individual prevention of the late epidemics. III. An account of the sedative properties of the granulated preparation of tin, in some affections of the mind / by John Ford.

  • Ford, John, 1731?-1807.
Date:
1803
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Credit: Three letters on medical subjects : addressed to the Reverend Gilbert Ford, Ormskirk, Lancashire. Containing I. An account of the effects of an aloetic medicine in the gout and other chronical complaints. II. A practice which has been successful in the individual prevention of the late epidemics. III. An account of the sedative properties of the granulated preparation of tin, in some affections of the mind / by John Ford. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    times be excited and brought into action after the conclusion of the period. This disposi- tion should never be concealed from the at- tending physician; and I would wish to en- force this necessity the more, as to such a concealment I attribute the loss of a most amiable patient, on whose fate I never reflect but with the painful fcfexien, that so valu- able a life might have been, but for this con- cealment, probably preserved. But I will no longer detain you on so very melancholy a theme. It has been observed by many prac- titioners, that the alteration induced in the female constitution by pregnancy, renders it very susceptible of epidemical influence, and liable to complaints of a putrid nature; but it will be a consolation to the subjects of such influence, to be informed, that the principle which has been so much the burthen of my three letters, applies also successfully in this instance; and for the proof, I will submit to
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