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PERNICIOUS EFFECTS OF MERCURY, 
‘0 guard the public against the. evils and 
ofted? fatal clone ae using this dangerous 
is 
article as medicine n object of the greatest 
solicitude on our part, and will at all times be 
r mes Han 
D. Fellow of the Royal College of ston 
and Professor of Midwifery in “the vsti of : 
Edinbur 
«¢ Among the numerous poisons which have 
been used for the cure or alleviation of diseases, 
there are few which possess se active, and of 
course more dangerous powe 
mercury.— 
Even the simplest and mildest + fardot that ma- 
terial exert a_ most extensive influence over the 
human Sams bes many of its chemical prepara- 
in the smallest 
s are 50 rious, 
they speedily destroy life. 
“* Practitioners of the first respectability pre- 
scribe, on es trifling pigomae, calomel or the 
blue pill. Thus calomel i ‘almost tl 
versal openin “saidleat ockmaene for 
(which is one of the mildest preparations of wer 
‘eury) is advised, without any discriminationy fo 
the cure of-tr 
grown persons. 
TGs Uae 
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