162 FAMILY. PHYSIGIAN. 
Dr. Falconai of a in a paper inserted in 
of t he Transactions of the Med- 
#: 
on, ay, ) 
Sreprob this practice, and 
has _— ted ou sepa of the dangerous effect 
e of mercury. ng 
o tos molten listened to; for the 
te ial medicines has, for sev- 
eral years, beéome more and more extensive 
“Tn detailing the changes Bre ounces upon the 
system by preparations of m , it is neces-. 
sary, to irae the well. es ‘fact, that there 
are dividuals -on whom such ‘medicines, 
} tmued for a Sonsilgrable length of 
: miting 
instances of constitutions which are “ unsuscepti- 
~. Dle of the influe f the ordmary doses and 
es of mercury, are very few in compar. 
n with those which are afipeten by the smnall- 
est quantity of that mineral. : 
*« Preparations of merci, exhibited either in- 
2 ternal or exte rnally for any length of time, in- 
_ €rease in general th 
h an extremely i irri- e 
