Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1089

JAMES HAMILTON (1749-1835). Observations on the utility and administration of purgative medicines in several diseases. Edinburgh: J. Simpson, 1806. 2nd ed. xv, 345 pp; 22.7 cm.

Hamilton was a student of William Cullen and Alexander Monro secundus at Edinburgh and for over thirty years a physician to the Royal Infirmary. After some early success with purgatives in treating typhus fever, he extended their use to a number of other diseases. His treatise on the subject went through eight British and three American editions.

Cited references: Wellcome III, p. 203