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London, England, 1812-04-21 00:00:00

GUESTONIAN MEDICINES.
OBSERVATIONS ON THE 000 D AND BAD Li
OF MERCURY.

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TT is upwards of three hur.dred years sirte cleetnnai
A preparations of Mercury were invented and prepaid ty eh
recelausi who was evidently the best chemist then in essence.
Agreeably with his latentions they wicceedesi 10 caring a dueetis
whith at that time became so fiirenidable as to detain the air
pation of mankind from the face of the earth, or at law, to hue
rendered them objects of detestation, even to themeelees; tart*.
affliction being subordinate to the indulgence of a men! Impel%
the powers of reason were too feeble to guard them age ust as
persuasive influence : and sech.were the gisainie strides ut thud,-
structive mated I,which travelled,yeith such rapidity, that tenses
the years 1494 and 141,9, it had (mind its way into althok reek
principal town in Europe, Asia, and Aftica, leaving sucoeueva.
tible proofs of its destructive virulence : the dee:dation isidi
which Its elf is were accompanied, were mote to be dread/
thin a pestilence, because 'at that period, more fatal in its comer
quences, and no apparent end to its depredations; for, whew
nately for these sufferers, no medicine was known teat email
effect a cure in this alarming disease, till by the superior *bitty
of faracelsus, the various chymical preparatiala Mercury were
elide known. The lives of thousands then, in every tart *the
world where this disease had found its way, were tet,tl any
with a great variety of such feeble medicines. l will not bete
trouble. the reader with an enumeration atheist.
The name of Paracelsus will bye so long as ;he heats of eta
can receive an impre•sion, or their heals keep in recollects,
the benefits he has conferred on the whole bemea race. He es.
It seems, of royal descent, and the only foible be posseanlime
an extreme degree of vaulty ; and who can wonder at 141 ft
we consider the great cures he accomplished, partscuhrh is this
I complaint?. Yet this infirmity, and the astonishing success dkis
practice, subjected him during the whole comic of hi. Air, :5 die
1 most scurrilous invectives of Medical Men; but this eulightead
Doctor heed in a dark age of ignorance, and the &cella*
• themselves wounded in those parts where pride and self itadat
are always to be found. If chit great man was now &tog, hew
grat fying would it be to him, to see one of his greatest peek.
dons substantially realized, in the establishment or impicoriont
of his chymic.al discoveries; and on the contrary, with what Me-
ror and disgust, would he have vice ed the method adopted*/
our hospitals, of introducing it to the system in a awn stain 1
and an unnecessary degree of Salivation kept up, to cure a der
• der that would certainly yield to a much more snide said safe
manner of administering this poisonous rccwdy; or coed be es-
' plore the streets of Loudon, and see the great ember of walk.
ing barometers, who, crawling along a suathlike pace, peeve the
deadly effects of this poisonous liquid mineral, sad that all dices
tortures with which they are &Meted, are the nine/ core-
quences of this new mode of practice; or could he pays whir
N 0.9, Great Surrey-street, Elacktriar's-road, be would there set
the most deplorable victims of this mode of Salivating, whkk Ms
subjected them to such pains and extreme deblity, se hewn as
description; and he t urety would have been petrified with maw
mint, to observe that this desperate Medicine is resorted to, is
almost every disorder that afflicts mankind, of which huedreds
are annually cured by the Guestouian Medicines, after being dis-
charged the different hospitals as incurable: so that it would went
these are the only remedies yet discovered, that can be depended
on for the cure of Mercurial Rheumatism. From long taped-
Mice the best of all pass:hie proofs, we sometimes find, that Cky-
ml43l Preparations of Mercury do not succeed in the cure of Lacs;
but this defect can always be traced to a cause, either that it hes
been improperly administesed, or what is more frequently the
case, the carelessness at ties patient; for it is of little cuesetpeoa
how salutary the hire/ antes ake, if their powers are interrnsed
by negligence os mal-practice ; but where Rheumatism ism bee he
consequence, I have always found it much more easily cared
where it has succeeded a salivation brought on by crude Maw/.
It is now between fifteen or ttfatetn years taw 1 Prof s.
cure Mercurial Itheurnatisin, and to prove how tar I Mee WA'
ceeded, refereaces may be had to azaur hundred Helvetii Pt-
tients of this description. Sach were the lainanawes d Mail.
of these patients, that the bare recital of there pans suds
me shudder; it therefore fathom, that althougb I calosjf.
mankind as greatly Witted to Parmelee', for one °jibe greitc7-
Medical discoveries that ever were made, it is Enoch 41 bout"'
ed, that sonie more sate, inoffensive, and effectual cure e 0
vsbta
uW be
obtained for this complaint, and resider unuecenali thu
ble, though tremendous nu d.cine.—For 46 years 1 bar paid rA
particular attention to the g sod and bad eff.ms of Bet rzer1;11".!
I recollect that during my apprenticeship to the late Mr. Jr!:
Cope, Chynest and Apothecary, at Birns.nglum, U WAS AllaW
for Medical men to prescribe large doses el '
Cathartic; but I am happy to observe, It it err 11.4
much greater success as au attentive in small doses, mil I amt.
of opledin, that even this reduced quantiey should be laid cor
for a time, as soots a the smallest 'y uptoms o oak VI
rate 4 h
cis diuuld always be avoided,wasenuch as tee reposer
lees Ids own repteation, the future happiness Li his li
tai t...b.
it
not only for the reasons already assign A, bat lea's ft
desperate effezts very omen tail .n airing a ciai,funte4
go.
t•wre are a 'army at chymiad Mit) s 4 • • rev/11.,,,„
fi 'ned to that will accomieish a cure it 'Arena, a 111 rTZ:e"
moderate cuis. aides. 'I bell Steely salivation b...,is be rie•
es unuec"ssaiy, oLureesitig, eget •ormenting ; at Atm%
,bag
cons, and °Leo ineffectual. It may 'oat* Inc6l4lll.lfiaige
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le rcpt. tstiul. of pea. tree to k uve,tleat there Se inn 7 -
of theist the smallest painae of 1.; sad 1 seams,
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