A view of ehe [sic] science of life : on the principles established in The elements of medicine, of the late celebrated John Brown, ; with an attempt to correct some important errors of that work ; and cases in illustration, chiefly selected from the records of their practice, at the General Hospital, at Calcutta . ex-citement. A deviation from health in the ftateof the pulfe, is one of the moft conftant fymp-toms of indirect debility. But the fureft crite-rion yet known, by which to eftimate the degreeof exhauftion, is the efTecl: produced, by the fti-mulant powers, applied for the cure. W
A view of ehe [sic] science of life : on the principles established in The elements of medicine, of the late celebrated John Brown, ; with an attempt to correct some important errors of that work ; and cases in illustration, chiefly selected from the records of their practice, at the General Hospital, at Calcutta . ex-citement. A deviation from health in the ftateof the pulfe, is one of the moft conftant fymp-toms of indirect debility. But the fureft crite-rion yet known, by which to eftimate the degreeof exhauftion, is the efTecl: produced, by the fti-mulant powers, applied for the cure. When the effecls of the mercurial ointmentwere not deemed fufficiently powerful, calomel j$6 CASES, K& was added. The ointment ufed war. the ftrong*eft ; but the quick-filver was not always fuffici-ently triturated. It is almoft unnecefTary to ob-ferve that, in dangerous cafes, mercury may atthe fame time be ufed, both internally and exter-nally, with advantage. The explanations annexed to the cafes will,perhaps, appear unneceifarily copious ; and, infome parts mere repetitions. But that wasdeemed the moft familiar, and therefore, in fomcrefpe&s, the beft mode of illuftrating the fubje£ will often place inferences in a clearpoint of view, when they might not be obviousfrom general POSTSCRIPT, By C. MACLEAN. X HE preceding cafes, it will be obferved,are not particularly felefted from fuch as termi-nated happily. Thofe only that were deemedmoft inflruaive, in illuftrating particular points,have been chofen. Many more of equal impor-tance might have been added ; but the publica-tion would thus have become too of them are offered, as approaching to per-fect examples ; but merely as conveying a ge-neral idea of the mode, in which, according toour opinion, the principles of the doctrine fhoul4be applied to practice, /.ltkough opium and mercury are the me-dicines, upon which we have placed moft depen-dance, in difeafes of high degree, as being mor
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