An essay on the origin and discovery of the medicinal virtues of the spirits of turpentine : Dedicated to ... Princess Charlotte of Wales / [Anna Keane].

  • Keane, Anna.
Date:
1816
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Credit: An essay on the origin and discovery of the medicinal virtues of the spirits of turpentine : Dedicated to ... Princess Charlotte of Wales / [Anna Keane]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    AN ESSAY, &c, -- • i i* ' \ - | i j ’ X J. ■' *\ . < ’! ' ' ‘ • ‘ J ' ? I 1 MAVING read in tlie Dublin Examiner for July last, an opinion on tire use of the Spirits of Turpentine in cases of Puerperal Fever, and Bowel Complaints, and a wish expressed to have the Faculty acquainted •£ f- • r 1 r fY , . i . .*# ty yt r> v» (* c t' €%S » with the first ideas that suggested its use. OO . :;:Uj4 ;x*' v vo 3Vi -i I shall state the means by which 3,came to a knowledge of its Medicinal Virtues ; although at first supposing the Faculty already aware of its properties, it had been my intention to have used it and other Medicines equally successful in Consumptions, in these cases which might occur within the sphere of my own observation, until I heard that the Puerperal Fever raged with such fatal violence in the Lying-in Hospital, and that Spirits of Turpentine had never been administered in that Disease. B