 When the liver has been accustomed to the stimulus of mercury, no other medicine will sufficiently excite its action. The person is thus led to the habitual use of the medicine, and, after a time, the constitution is undermined by it. • . . . It increases...  Therapeutic Gazette - Page 2541891Full view - About this book
 | 1847 - 900 pages
...consequence, mercury, although even here it may relieve for the moment, will almost invariably do harm. It increases the activity of the liver, at first,...having any permanent deleterious effect on the system. The best medicine of this class is taraxacum ; which may be given alone, or in conjunction with the... | |
 | George Budd - 1853 - 514 pages
...thighs for a quarter of an hour daily. here it may relieve for the moment, almost invariably does harm. It increases the activity of the liver at first, but...we should be content with milder medicines, which promote the secretion of bile without having any permanent deleterious effect on the system. The best... | |
 | George Budd - 1857 - 554 pages
...temperature, and should be applied assiduously to the trunk and iusides of the thighs for a quarter of an hour to leave it weaker than before ; and if frequently...we should be content with milder medicines, which promote the secretion of bile without having any permanent deleterious effect on the system. One of... | |
 | Alfred Stillé - 1860 - 982 pages
...its restoration. " Its frequent use, in any case, may lead to much mischief. When the liver has been accustomed to the stimulus of mercury, no other medicine...original disease, is still further impaired by the drug."1 In all such cases, the best medicine of its class is taraxacum, alone, or in conjunction with... | |
 | Alfred Stillé - 1864 - 826 pages
...its restoration. "Its frequent use, in any case, may lead to much mischief. When the liver has been accustomed to the stimulus of mercury, no other medicine...further impaired by the drug."* In all such cases, the best medicine of its class is taraxacum, alone, or in conjunction with uitromuriatic acid. Jaundice.... | |
 | Alfred Stillé - 1874 - 1020 pages
...its restoration. " Its frequent use, in any case, may lead to much mischief. When the liver has been accustomed to the stimulus of mercury, no other medicine...original disease, is still further impaired by the drug." 1 In all such cases, the best medicine of its class is taraxacum, alone, or in conjunction with nitrornuriatic... | |
 | 1891 - 450 pages
...purgatives (podophyllin, euonymin, Glauber salts, etc.), which, according to the modern researches, arc more specially cholagogue. There is one evil attending...deleterious effect on the system. Chambers, who prefers the pil aloes et myrrhm as an alterative to any mercurial, uses this emphatic language in his work on "Indigestions,"... | |
 | Nathan Smith Davis - 1874 - 636 pages
...become accustomed to the stimulus of mercury, no other medicine will sufficiently excite its action. * * It increases the activity of the liver at first, but seems to leave it weaker than before," etc. It is impossible to explain the contradictory language of Stille, except by supposing that he... | |
 | 1874 - 634 pages
...become accustomed to the stimulus of mercury, no other medicine will sufficiently excite its action. * * It increases the activity of the liver at first, but seems to leave it weaker than before," etc. It is impossible to explain the contradictory language of Stille, except by supposing that he... | |
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