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black colour by the addition of fal martis 
b 
^ 
and the powdered 
leaves a6t 
llrong flernutatory 
That the Arnica 
medicine of confiderable adivity there 
be a doubt : but how f« 
deferves the 
has received at Vienna, is not for us to determ 
agar 
eith 
praifes it 
fa6ts 
ftated by D 
Collin are not admitted by the phyfic 
of this 
country, or we are difregardful 
the Materia Medica. 
of 
remedy of the firfl imp 
\ 
\j 
But as our 
bufmefs is to adduce whatever is 
ed of each 
)r Hemlock) 
plant by authors of refpeaability, (whether of Arni 
ftill the medical reader muil form his own judgment of the evL 
dence. 
The virtues of this 
ord 
to B 
are emetica 
errhina, diuretica, diaphoretica, emmanagoga, and from its fuppofed 
power of attenuating the blood, it has been efteemed fo peculiarly 
bad confequences occafioned by falls and 
and 
efficacious in'ob ^ 
bruifes, that it obtained the appell 
to th 
of panacea lapforum 
power its fuccefs in fundry difeafes h 
and 
s refolvent 
;d for, particularly pulmonic comp 
ifceral obftrudions 
been 
fuppreffio menfi 
ac 
r 
Of the advantages derived from its ufe 
paralytic and other afFedions depend 
up 
diminution of 
dbferved 
thefe cafe 
■gy 
we have feveral proofs 
uption 
and it 
is 
the 
great uneafmefs 
ry is generally preceded by 
pain in the parts affeded 
B 
it is the 
b 
BergluSj m. m. 683 
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* The author has not been able to procure this plant from any of the London drug- 
gifts. 
c There is a variety of this fpecles with narrower leaves, which is more powerfully 
medicinal. Gmelin Flor. Sibir. t. 2. p. 153. 
<• Fehrlus Eph. N. C. Dec. i. ann. 9 & 10. Obf. 2. Ada Med. Berolin, Dec. i. 
vol. I. n. 4. voL 10. p. 80. Dec. 2. vol. i. p. 66. Buchner, Dili, de genulnis priaci- 
piis et efFedibus Arnlcae. Schulzius, M. M. De La Marche DifT. deArnicse verae ufu. 
Rofenftein. Apot. p. 21. Scopol. Fl. earn. p. 377. 
^ Fehr loc. cit. Briicknerj in Sel, Med. Francaf. vol. 3. p. 190. A61. Berol. Dec. i. 
vol. 9. p. 24. Quarin, Meth. Med. inflam. p. 80. A6i:. Berol Dec. i. vol. 10. p. 82* 
1. c. Dec. 2. vol. 4. p. 92 & 94. Nebel in A61. nat. cur. vol. 8. Obf. 113. Vater, 
DifT. de I£lero. 
^ Bergius m. m. Junker Therap. gen, p. 173. Efchenbach Obf. p. 353. & Dr. Collin, 
Flor. Arnic3e Vires, mentions 28 cafes of paralyfiSj and 9 of amaurofis. Aafkow So- 
ciet. Med. Havan, vol, 2* p. 162. 
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