Treatise on puerperal peritonitis / by A.C. Baudelocque ... to which was awarded the prize by the Royal Society of Medicine of Bordeaux. Translated from the French by G. S. Bedford.

  • Baudelocque, A. C. (Auguste César), 1795-1851.
Date:
1831
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    of peritonitis, the patients always recovered. It was consequently proposed to provoke it by a preparation of mercury known as the most prompt in affecting the mouth and gums. We therefore had recourse to the soluble mercury of Hahne- man, in the dose of a grain given in white sugar, five hours in the twenty-four, without henbane or opium. Our attempt was not without effect; at the end of the second day, salivation occurred ; we did nothing to moderate it, and without being excessive, the symptoms were amended ina few days, and the patient recovered perfect health.” (P. 60.) | The modus operandi of mercury is not known to us, in any case, not more in acute than chronic inflammations, in syphilis than in scrofula, Wc. ; for to say, with doctors Huteland, Richter and Hecker, that it has the property of diminishing the plasticité of the blood; to admit, with Ernst Horn, that nothing is better proved than the de- bilitating property of the mercurial oxydes and salts; to regard, with doctor Ontyd, calomel as an excitant of the lymphatic system; and to ac- cord, with others, a mere revulsive action to the mercurial preparations effected by the aid of the salivary glands, would not prove a very satisfac- tory solution of the question.