Practical observations on disorders of the stomach : with remarks on the use of the bile in promoting digestion / by George Rees, M.D.

  • Rees, George, 1776-1846.
Date:
1814
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Credit: Practical observations on disorders of the stomach : with remarks on the use of the bile in promoting digestion / by George Rees, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Opening medicines were now recommended, and relaxants at night; the lochia was thus brought on, and the salivation immediately disappeared. CASE. A young man consulted me a short time ago, whom I visited in company with Mr. Evans, Surgeon, in Old-Street; he said he had had a chancre on the penis six months before, and used mercury then for a few weeks only, but not to such a degree as to produce any sensible effect upon the mouth. On examining the inside of the fauces, a very general and deep-seated ulceration was observe able on the uvula and tonsil glands, and a pro- fuse salivation to the amount of two quarts a day attended it, without the least mercury, as he por sitively assured us, having been used since the above-mentioned period. As this gentleman's constitution appeared to be considerably en- feebled, and his habit scrophulous, we thought it adviseable to give him first a gentle emetic, and afterwards bark; we adopted this plan, but without effect, the spitting still continuing, and the ulceration extending its ravages. We now employed mercurial ointment in the usual man- ner, and after rubbing in on the thigh two drachms of