An essay, on the operation of mercury, in the human body; : in which, the manner how salivation is produced, by that medicine, is attempted to be explained: interspersed with observations on the treatment of the venereal disease. / By Robert Maywood, M. D.

  • Maywood, Robert.
Date:
MDCCLXXXVII
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Credit: An essay, on the operation of mercury, in the human body; : in which, the manner how salivation is produced, by that medicine, is attempted to be explained: interspersed with observations on the treatment of the venereal disease. / By Robert Maywood, M. D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Whether the cure would not have fucceeded without the ointment, we will not pretend to faybut we well know, infections of years (land- ihg, of this nature, have been fpeedily removed by the preceding courfe. It is obferved in that treatife lately pablifhed, which we have had occafion in the former part of this effay to mention, that gonorrhoea has been contracted, whilft a patient has'been under a courfe of mercury; and, this is thought to be a proof, that this medicine does not exert an antidotal power. We mull, again, repeat that we cannot admit this as a proof; becaufe, the portion of mercury circulating with the mafs of fluids and coming into contaCt with that matter which produced gonorrhoea, at the time, or even after coition, might not have been fuffi- cient for it’s faturation. We know for a cer- tainty that venereal ulcers are effectually cured by mercurials ; it remains to be proved, whether other applications will fucceed as effectually. Mercurial