A letter to Mr. Clare, surgeon, on his new and easy method of introducing mercury into the system through the orifices of the absorbent vessels on the inside of the mouth / [William Turnbull].

  • Turnbull, William, approximately 1729-1796.
Date:
[1783]
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Credit: A letter to Mr. Clare, surgeon, on his new and easy method of introducing mercury into the system through the orifices of the absorbent vessels on the inside of the mouth / [William Turnbull]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    * you in your late ingenious publication^ which merits a candid reception from the public. This is due to every individual, who, like yourfelf, communicates his know¬ ledge for the good of mankind. Mr. Bird, at prefent furgeon to the gallant Lord Hood, was the fir ft who ad- vifed me to make trial of your new me- thod of applying mercury, having often tried- it himielf with the greatefl fuccefs. I confefs that at find thought it fiaogered me, but having feen and proved its good ef¬ fects, I am now as much an advocate for it, as 1 was before doubtful of its effica¬ cy. After I had nerufed with attention J X and maturely confidered your Treatife on the fubjedt, I 'was ftruck with the perti¬ nence of your remarks and ingenuity of argument, being confident with reafon and founded on anatomical facts ; at the fame time I have been often a witnefs to the fallacy of the Alterative Plan, with 'the difagreeable and dreadful confequences arif- ing from mercurial fridtion. on the extre¬ mities. I have known on Jhip board, and on fhore likewife, but more particularly in the former, dangerous fevers and fatal diarrhoeas fupervene from that manner of applying the mercury;—I am now con-