Observations on indigestion: in which is satisfactorily shewn the efficacy of ipecacuan, in relieving this, as well as its connected train of complaints peculiar to the decline of life / [M. Daubenton (Louis-Jean-Marie)].

  • Daubenton, M. (Louis-Jean-Marie), 1716-1799
Date:
1807
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Credit: Observations on indigestion: in which is satisfactorily shewn the efficacy of ipecacuan, in relieving this, as well as its connected train of complaints peculiar to the decline of life / [M. Daubenton (Louis-Jean-Marie)]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    left on subjects out of the pale of natural his¬ tory (as for example, his Directions for the Management of FlocksJ are directed with the most scrupulous attention to utility. It is not to be conceived, that a man of his reputation in science would lay before the Royal Medical Society of Paris, of which he was a member, a paper, vouching so strongly for the salutary effects of a medicine, of the efficacy of which he did not entertain the most complete convic¬ tion. Not being engaged in the actual practice of medicine, he could have no selfish or sinister views in recommending the use of Ipecacuanha in this particular class oj diseases. His own example is a proof that he understood, at least, the art of preserving health ; as he died a few years ago, after having weathered the storms of the Revolution, at the advanced age of 84.