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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    05 recommended, has been employed for the last seven- teen years in the private practice of Professor Hosack, and during his attendance at the New-York State Pri- son, New-York Hospital, and the Alms-house of this city, as physician of those institutions. It has invari- ably been found to be the remedy best calculated for the removal of lues venerea, both in its primary and secondary stages; and not a single case is recollected in which the cure has not been permanent. Those injurious effects upon the stomach and bowels, which are so much apprehended, were avoided by a cautious employment of the medicine, and by a due considera- tion of the peculiarities in the constitution and state of the patient From this form of mercury, salivation scarcely ever was induced; and while under its in- fluence, the employment of the decoct, guaiac. et sar- saparil. was found to be an excellent auxiliary in recent cases; and in the secondary stage of the dis- ease, where the patient had been neglected, or when improprieties in the cure had been committed, it was almost indispensable. To conclude. Though satisfied that the muriate of mercury possessed full claims to the title of a powerful anti-venereal, from a perusal of the testimo- ny published in its favour, and from a personal know- ledge of the result of several cases in which it had been employed; with the view of more fully deter- mining so important a subject, and to ascertain as far as practicable whether the objections which have been