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tions, ought to be excepted from the general rule; and for the 
same reason their principles must be more analogous to our na- 
ture, and of course favourable in their properties and effects, as 
observation and experience prove. 
_ The genuine Calaguala is universally used in Peru to thin 
the blood, to promote perspiration, and to mitigate rheumatic 
and venereal pains. It is frequently used in falls, blows, con- 
tusions, and in bodily strains caused by ovyer-exertion, and 
its pane is _ acknowledged in gers Be internal —— 
“ SORTS Savwae to inte eneral Hotices, which T originally 
collected in Peru, as serving to instruct and enlighten those per- 
sons in Europe who frequently attribute very different virtues to 
the Calaguala; which, in my opinion, do not all merit belief, 
until they have been proved by empenments and gererches made 
with sound judgement.* ee 
The most common method of using tis Poke in Deva is in 
® , The Ph yrmacopeeia Matritensis, printed in 1762, states, that the Calaguala is chi-fly 
used in decoction, though sometimes administered in powder, and that its virtue is aperient, 
solvent, and sudorific, Don Diego Bravo, already mentioned, affirms in his Dissertation, that 
this root is one of the most powerful antisyphilitic medicines, when administered in the form 
of a ptisan ; that it is the best deobstruent in medicine, the best specific hitherto met with for 
the total extirpation of internal and external imposthumes ; that it also readily dissipates or 
dissolves the accumulations of extravasated blood (especially in falls) ; that it is an excellent 
hemoptoic and wonderful emmenagogue, of great effect in jaundice, in affections of the chest, 
and that it radically removes tertian and quartan agues; that the powder of the Calaguala 
abates coughing, relieves oppression of the chest, and hoarseness ; lastly, that it. is ahravede, 
ke, That it is to be administered j in every species of gonorrheea to heal and cleanse the inter- 
nal ulcers ; that it is given to promote menstruation, facilitate lochia, to solve scirrhous dis— 
positions and grumous concretions of the blood; that it is solvent and expellent; that it 
assuages the tormenting pains which ensue after delivery, called by the vulgar after-pains ; 
that in the latter cases the women drink the decoction sweetened with honey ; that it is used 
with great advantage in removing pleuritic inflammation, and to facilitate expectoration : in 
suppurations of the viscera it is taken with great benefit, mixing two ounces of honey and two 
