A new and easy method of giving mercury, to those affected with the venereal disease : To which is annexed a new theory of the action of this metal on the salivary glands / Translated from the Latin of Joseph James Plenck.

  • Plenck, Joseph Jacob, Ritter von, 1738-1807.
Date:
1772
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Credit: A new and easy method of giving mercury, to those affected with the venereal disease : To which is annexed a new theory of the action of this metal on the salivary glands / Translated from the Latin of Joseph James Plenck. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ 3^ I Experiment VI. Mercury ‘with yinglafs. To, two drachms of Ifinglafs. re¬ duced to the confiftence of glue, I added one drachm of Mercury, and triturated them together with great labour for more than half an hour : but all was in vain j the fmalleft quantity of Mercury did not unite with it. It is well known that quickfilver can be very readily extinguifhed by animal fat; but fo perfedt a divifions^ and fo thorough an extindlion can¬ not be thereby obtained as by mu¬ cus j for the fat being rendered more liquid by heat, nay even fpontane- oufly, the Mercury in Neapolitan; ointment will fubfide to the bottom. C o R o L- *