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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    declaration of Boyle, who observes that death has been occasioned from the same cause.* Besides these authors maybe mentioned the Jesuit Aeosta,f Fabricius Hil- danus,$ and Bernadin Ramazzani.^ Among the conse- quences attendant on those who work in mercury, or are exposed to its fumes, Hoffman states palsies, apo- plexies, epilepsies, hectic fever, &c.|| PaulusZaccheus, in his legal medicine, enters at length into the consi- deration of the effects of mercury in its native state; and not only declares his own opinion of their perni- cious nature, but adduces arguments in confirmation, from some of the early Arabian writers, and enume- rates the diseases caused by the fumes of this metal; he adds, the same Avieenna declares.** M. Jussiau, says Dr. Alley, in a paper on the working of the quicksilver mines of Almaden, in Spain, published in 1719, mentions the appearance of pustules over the whole body as a consequence of a contact with the mineral, even in its metallic state, together with tumours of the parotids, aphthae, and salivations.ff * Works, vol. 3. p. 330 fol. ed. 1744. f Discourse of Quicksiluer, of the Mynes and Worke, and what is requi* site for that subject. Purchas his Pilgrimes, vol. 3. p. 947-8. i Observat. et Curat. Chirurtr. cent. v. § De Morbis Artific. p. 491. fl Dissert. Metallurgy, morbif. Rational. Systemat. vol. 2. ed. 1729. ** Ut idem Avieenna testatur. Quest. Medico-leg-al. lib. 11. p. 212. ?d. 1688. ft Observat. on Hydragyria, p. iv. 4