Observations on the nature and cure of calculus, sea scurvy, consumption, catarrh, and fever : together with conjectures upon several other subjects of physiology and pathology.

  • Beddoes, Thomas, 1760-1808
Date:
1793
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Credit: Observations on the nature and cure of calculus, sea scurvy, consumption, catarrh, and fever : together with conjectures upon several other subjects of physiology and pathology. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    forded relief in lefs than three: weeks; and in no cafe but one, out of more than twenty that have fallen under my own obfervation, have they failed to perform every thing which could be defired from medicine, ex- cept eradicating the tendency to form cal- culous concretions, to which no known re- medy has the {malleft pretenfions. I might perhaps fafely truft to the above- mentioned pamphlet, as bearing abundant teftimony to the efficacy of alkaline {alts ; and confidently appeal to future experience in confirmation both of the power of fal fode in the form prefcribed, and of its harmleffnefs; at all events it will be unne- ceflary to particularize flight cafes, which have always at once yielded to the remedy. The following, in which the fymptoms were either of very long ftanding, or extreme fe- verity, will, I hope, be fufficient to procure a trial to the medicine. I. Mr.