An inaugural dissertation on mercury : embracing its medical history, curative action, and abuse in certain diseases / by John W. Francis, A.B. Vice-President of the Medical and Surgical Society of the University of New-York.

  • Francis, John W. (John Wakefield), 1789-1861.
Date:
1811
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    INAUGURAL DISSERTATION ON MERCURY. Introduction. The limits usually prescribed to an inaugural dis- sertation, necessarily preclude the idea of discussing this subject in all its relations. Omitting to detail the general properties of mercury, as found in a native state, and its various combinations with other sub- stances, which are generally detailed at some length in the several works on chemistry and mineralogy, the writer will proceed to the more immediate objects of this exercise, which are to consider the curative action of this remedy and its abuse as an article of the materia, medica. Previously, however, it may be proper to give some account of its natural and medi- cal history. 2