A new collection of medical prescriptions, distributed into twelve classes ... with ... remarks, exhibiting a view of the present state of the materia medica ... / By a member of the London College of Physicians [i.e. R. Pearson].

Date:: 1791

Credit: A new collection of medical prescriptions, distributed into twelve classes ... with ... remarks, exhibiting a view of the present state of the materia medica ... / By a member of the London College of Physicians [i.e. R. Pearson]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$thinks, by obviating the general acrimony in the lyftem; a fuppofition, he adds, which explains both why large dofes of the opium are neceffary, and why perfons bear thefe large dofes in this difeafe better than in many other cafes. This narcotic has been likewife given by itfelf, in thefe cafes, to the quantity of ten or twelve grains a day, and even more, in the hopes of aecomplifhing a cure without the help of mercury. But moft praftitioners, we are perfuaded, will agree with Dr. Cullen (and the obfervations of Mr. John Hunter tend to the fame conclu- fion) that though opium affords much relief^ it is never aione a fufficient remedy for the diieafe. 1. Pills of Acetaled Quickfilver.' Take of The acetated quickfilver, L. Ph. three grains. With a little crumb of bread or ex- - trad of liquorice, and a drop of fome eflen- tial oil, make-into two pills, to be taken at night, and to be continued as long as {hall be found neceffary. In venereal cafes. In the fame manner, in the fame dofes^ and in the fame cafes, may be given . 3. Pills of mild Muriated SfuickfilveY-, and 4. Pills of Calomel,$