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Excerpt from A Practical Essay on the Use, Nitrate of Silver, Inflammation, Wounds, and Ulcers
I think it important, in a few introductory observations, to draw the attention of surgeons to the obvious utility of the remedy which is the subject of the following pages, in the sev eral departments of army, navy, and hospital practice.
The nitrate of silver' is so portable, and renders the multiplicity of dressings usually applied in many surgical cases so unnecessary, that it must be of great advantage in circum stances in which it is of importance to be as little incumbered as possible by baggage.
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