A View of the Mercurial Practice in Febrile Diseases
A View of the Mercurial Practice in Febrile Diseases
John Warren
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Dr. James Currie, physician to Guy's hospital, who had been in India in 1786, testified in favour of mercury in hepatic complaints, but used it merely for the purpose of emulging the ducts, not of salivat- ing ; and found calomel tlie only medicine to be relied on for this purjK)se. The astonishing success of this treatment, in the hepatic aflfections of India, induced Mr. W. Scott, at Bombay, in 1793, to make some experiments to ascertain, whether there might not be some chemical affinity betw...een this metallic substance and the bile which is so generally con- cerned in diseases of that country. 81 He mixed the resinous base of the bile of a buffalo with half its weight of the red calx of mercury and 10 or 12 ounces of water. On heating the whole, he was surprized to find, that the bile became more soluble in water. This he supposed was owing to the oxygenation of the resin by the pure air of the calx. These diseases of the liver being supposed to arise from deposition of the resinous parts of the bile upon that organ, it was readily inferred from this experiment, that they were cured by the oxygen of the mercury uniting with the resin, and rendering it soluble in animal fluids.
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