Prize Essay: Rational Therapeutics, or the Comparative Value of Different Curative Means, and the Principles of Their Application (Classic Reprint)
(Excerpt from Prize Essay: Rational Therapeutics, or the C...)
Excerpt from Prize Essay: Rational Therapeutics, or the Comparative Value of Different Curative Means, and the Principles of Their Application
The writings of Cullen gave to medical practice every where a more definite and decided character. Especially did such remedies as calomel and antimony come into more common use. Dr. James Hamilton, of the University of Edinburgh, in a very judicious work on the use and abuse of mercurial medicines, published in 1820, says, that, for some ages after mercury became an article of the Materia Medica, physicians recommended it only on the most urgent occasions but, within these few years, British practitioners seem to have overlooked the necessity for such caution, and to exhibit that medicine with very little scruple. He also says, that calomel is now in Great Britain almost the universal opening medicine recommended for infants and children; and a course of the blue pill (which is one of the mildest preparations of mercury) is advised, without any discrimination, for the cure of trifling irregularities of diges tion in grown persons. And the same may be said of its use in this country at that time.
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