Observations on the use and abuse of mercurial medicines in various diseases / by James Hamilton.

  • Hamilton, James, 1767-1839.
Date:
1819
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Credit: Observations on the use and abuse of mercurial medicines in various diseases / by James Hamilton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    follow. Delicate individuals, however, par- ticularly those who have been accustomed to a sedentary life, and, therefore, in an especial degree, females, generally experience, after a course of mercury, various modifi- cations of disordered feelings, communicat- ing the idea of imaginary diseases, which unfit them for the duties of life, and render existence a burden. Among the anomalous complaints arising from this cause, may be enumerated, im- paired or capricious appetite for food, with all the ordinary symptoms of indigestion, particularly retchings in the morning, and flatulency—disturbed sleep, with frightful dreams—impaired or depraved vision—fre- quent aches and pains in, different pans of the body—occasionally such sudden failure of strength, as if just dying, and at other times violent palpitations at the heart, ac- companied with difficulty of breathing. A- long with all these complaints, there is such a wretchedness of look, with such a propen-