The mercurial disease. An enquiry into the history and nature of the disease produced in the human constitution by the use of mercury, with observations on its connexion with the lues venerea / [Andrew Mathias].

  • Mathias, Andrew, 1767?-1823.
Date:
1810
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Credit: The mercurial disease. An enquiry into the history and nature of the disease produced in the human constitution by the use of mercury, with observations on its connexion with the lues venerea / [Andrew Mathias]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    will often preserve him from falling into the hands of those who may prove to have neither honesty nor judgment enough to do justice to the practi- tioner from whose care he has unadvisedly suffered himself to be withdrawn. I can very truly assert, that although I take care to employ decisive courses of mercury in every instance of the lues venerea, yet I always hold myself in fear of the mercurial irritation, and instantly desist from its use, when I think there is the least probability of its having commenced. By pursuing this plan, perhaps only for a few days, I observe very often that the mercury, which was before given, comes into greater effect; and to my having this apprehension of the disease occasioned by mercury, I impute my not expe- riencing the same tediousness and interruptions in the cure of the lues venerea which 1 formerly found. I shall now proceed to the proposed Inquiry.