Volume 1

A treatise on mercury, shewing the danger of taking it crude for all manner of disorders ... / [Anon.] ; with some remarks on the Antient physician's legacy [of Thomas Dover].

  • Bradley, Henry (Surgeon)
Date:
1733
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A treatise on mercury, shewing the danger of taking it crude for all manner of disorders ... / [Anon.] ; with some remarks on the Antient physician's legacy [of Thomas Dover]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE A' appear in this Tfeatile; and therefore may be rant’d 'among the flow Potions, if apply’d by an unskilful Hand. My Defign is not to derogate from the Virtues of Mercury ; it is, by common Content, reckon’d among the four Cardinal Medi¬ cines. I allow crude Mercury may do great Service in fome sCales; and if 1 can but convince the Reader lo far, that he may grant me, on the other hand, it may alfo do great Prejudice, if mifapplied, I have my End. Crude Mercury has been long deem’d as the ultimate Remedy in the Iliac Paffion, vulgarly called the Twilling of the Guts. Brajfa- voltiSj Matthiolus, Amatus Lujitanus. Hartmamur, and others, were bold A * enough