On the whole, I prefer mercurials to podophyllin, and only administer the latter in slight cases of jaundice, or in those where mercurials are counter-indicated.
The bowels are to be attended to, and the secretions promoted by mercurials with stimulants, as camphor with calomel, or the hydrargyrum cum creta.
I placed the patient on mercurials and at last give him three salvarsan injections three weeks apart.
Biniodol is, therefore, superior and much to be preferred to other mercurials used for like purposes.
I gave mercurialsand potassium iodid for seven months, and salvarsan once.
With the soluble mercurials “considerable upset of the normal cell conditions of the tissues ensues whilst these soluble salts are being converted to a condition in which the body can make use of them.
Mercurials and pellitory of Spain belong to this class.
Those containing aloes or mercurials are best taken at bedtime.
The mercurials form, indeed, one of the most important classes of the materia medica.
Dr James himself was remarkably successful in its use; but whether his success depended upon his powder or the mercurials and bark which he commonly employed at the same time is still undetermined.
In malignant scarlet fever a smart emetic should be given early, and mercurials and diaphoretics at once freely exhibited.
The action of mercurialsor of iodide of potassium in melting away plastic inflammatory materials is sometimes very striking, but more frequently they either do no good or else do harm by disturbing the digestion.
In the absence of any trustworthy testimony upon the subject it is only possible at present to state that in the treatment of this diseasemercurials should not be used.
Common sense has also proved stronger than theory in excluding mercurials from the treatment of epidemic meningitis.
In my opinion, no drugs meet this indication so well as mercurials and saline purges and diuretics.
When mercurials have been taken sulphide of mercury may give a green color to the discharges.
The stools of the early stages of attacks should not be checked unless excessive, and mercurials and laxatives should be more freely used than in simple typhoid fever.
It is now conceded by all enlightened physicians that mercurials in large or in ordinary doses are worse than worthless in epidemic cholera.
Mild cases following the administration of mercurials often subside upon mere withdrawal of the drug.
Mercurials were formerly almost universally used, but they have been largely supplanted by podophyllin, euonymin, baptisin, etc.
Under the use ofmercurials and iodide of potassium they usually subside rapidly.
The mercurials and potassium iodide have been recommended, but the results are very doubtful.
This sort of soreness is often watched for in the therapeutic administration of mercurials purposely given to "touch the gums," as an indication that the system is under the influence of the drug.
Chronic cases of long-continued inflammatory action, with intestinal complication, are often much benefited by the use of mercurials in small doses.
The Mercurials were all on my side of the compound.
I can, after I know these Mercurials better, lead them perhaps to a higher round in the ladder of civilization.
You have no excuse for instructing the Mercurials in the alpha and omega of your contemptible profession.
These Mercurials appear to stand the heat pretty well," I remarked.
What a pity it will be if the Mercurials prove to have traction interests!
These little Mercurials appear to be a friendly people, and if our comrades escaped that frightful tempest they must sooner or later fall into the hands of these dwellers of the under-world.
I followed, clumsily upsetting a half dozen Mercurials who chanced to gel in my way.
The Mercurialsare dumb, it seems," answered the professor, "and they have to resort to purely mechanical means for an exchange of ideas.
These Mercurials are possessed of ways and means beyond our earthly powers to combat.
The professor, although his talk was profound and somewhat wearying, seemed to the Mercurials as more worth while, and they flocked to hear him.
Cords were made fast to our feet, and we were dragged by a small army of Mercurials down the principal street of their city and out into one of the white, irrigated fields.
I told the Mercurials that my utterances had been in the nature of a fairy story, and I gave the lie to my convictions by declaring that the reasoning, as in all fairy tales, was unsound.
By that time we had emptied the receptacle of food, and as we dropped our paddles and drew back, the word-boxes of a hundred Mercurials shrieked despairingly.
This we did, and found ourselves in the centre of a group of Mercurials whose word-boxes were chattering like so many magpies.
Grey powder, blue pill, and calomel are the three forms in one or other of which mercurials are commonly given.
As Haematic medicines, Mercurialshave a double action.
Alkalies and Mercurials may prove serviceable in acute cases.
The chief of these are Mercurials (Blue Pill and Calomel,) Iodine, and Sulphur.
In incipient and chronic cases of Scrofula, consumption, and mesenteric disease, it is possible that Mercurialsmay act yet in another way.
For the purpose of acting upon the liver and bowels, Mercurials are frequently used in disordered digestion and cases of hepatic derangement.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mercurials" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
