Observations on the utility and administration of purgative medicines in several diseases / [James Hamilton].

  • Hamilton, James, 1749-1835.
Date:
1805
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Credit: Observations on the utility and administration of purgative medicines in several diseases / [James Hamilton]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    I have occupied places of profeffional truft and refponfibility in Edinburgh for upwards of thirty years. During the whole of this period, I have difchargéed’ the duties of Phyfician to the ' Royal Infirmary, to George Heriot’s Hofpital, and to the two Maiden Hofpitals of this city. In the midft of the full, and fometimes labo- rious occupations, in which, in confequerice of thefe fituations, I have. been engaged, ‘my?atten- tion was, many years.ago, attracted to) the» pur- gative effect of medicines given. in Typhus fe- ver. And the facts which then prefented them- _ felves to my notice, induced me to ‘repeat thefe medicines again and. again; till, by ‘flow, ad- vances, [at laft acquired confidence inthe prac- tice. Many opportunities have fince occurred of confirming thefe obfervations, which, im my apprehenfion; clearly. eftablith the fafety and utility of giving. purgative medicines ‘in the. courfe of Typhus fever; under the limitations which I point outs, | I was afterwards difpofed to think favourably of the fame practice in Scarlatina ; and the uti- lity