Download or read book The New York Journal of Medicine, 1859, Vol. 7 (Classic Reprint) written by and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The New York Journal of Medicine, 1859, Vol. 7 To Mr. Herpin belongs the merit of having been the first to use it. The first notice of the use of this salt for mercurial salivation appeared from this eminent physician in the Bulletin (16 T7zérap., for March, 1855. There appears to be no claim made by any one to the trial of this remedy for the purpose under consideration, prior to this date. Dr. Hutchinson remarks: to those who have confidence in the powers of the chlorate against other toms of stomatitis, the employment of it against that caused by mercury is but a very natural step, and there is nothing surprising in the circumstance that it should have sug gested itself to several independent observers about the same time. This appears to have been the case with the European observers, by none of whom was it noticed until three years atter I had commenced its use in practice. The difference in time is so great that it is but justice to mvself to claim priority in the discovery. During the three years previous to the time when this remedy was first tried by M. Herpin, I had used it so tiequently that it had ceased to he a novelty. 80 great became my confidence in it. During that period that the liberal use oi mercury, so frequently necessary in that country, was disarmed ot its most objectionable teature by the facility with which its unpleasant tendency to produce ptyalism could be arrested. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.