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extraordinary febrifuge and antifeptlc virtue of the Arnica, which 
have been fo highly extolled by Dr. Collin ^. 
It had' long been a defideratum of his to find an European plant 
of equal medicinal powers with the Peruvian bark in fevers of the 
intermitting and putrid kind ; and after feveral fruitlefs trials of dif- 
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ferent fimples, at laft he had the fatisfadion to find them in the 
Arnica ; for by the flowers of this plant, made into an eleduary 
with honey, he cured more than one thoufand patients labouring 
under the different fpecies of intermittent fevers in the Paznian hoC 
pital, from December 1771, to July 1774; and during the follow- 
ing winter the Doctor made trial of a watery extrad: of the flowers, 
by which he cured thirty quotidians, forty-fix tertians, and fifty 
eight quartans 
In putrid fevers the Do£lor experienced equal fuccefs with the 
flowers employed in the way of infufioi:^ \ with which many hun- 
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dreds of patients w^ere fnatched from the very jav/s of death, 
ever, there are fome cafes where the Doctor recommends the root'' 
in preference to the flowers, believing the former to poiTefs more 
cordial, tonic, and antifeptlc qualities ; and it is accordingly direded 
in thofe cafes where putridity and debility are more prevalent than 
alfo in a malignant dyfentery Dr. Collin could relate many 
fever ; 
hundred Inftances of the fuperior efhcacy of Arnica root, and his 
pra.Q:ice 111 this difeafe was imitated and confirmed by Dr. Diet! . 
Dr. Collin farther afcertains the medicinal powers which he at- 
attributes to this root in thirteen cafes of gangrenes, where its anti- 
g Hen. Jof. Collin, phyfician to the Pazman hofpital, De arnicae in febrlbus, & alii» 
morbis putridis viribus. 
^ R. Pulv. Flor. Arnicae drach. Ix. mellis q, f. bidui fpatio abfumendum. 
* Dr. Collin is, we believe, the only author who has experienced the good effects 
of Arnica In Intermitting fevers, if we except the two cafes ftated by Aafkow (he.) 
where It a£led as a powerful evacuant. Berglus employed it In quartan intermlttents, 
which were aggravated, rather than bettered, by the tife of this medicine, m. m. 
^ R. Flor. arnicae unc j. infunde in s. q. aquae fervidae per | horam, deinde vafe 
claufo per medium | horse ebulliant ; colat. lib. ij. add. fyr. capill. vener. q. f. ad gratlam; 
et omni bihorio diel fumat unc ij. 
^ R. Pulv. Rad. Arnicae unc. ij\ digere inphiala alta balneo arena adaptata, exacte 
claufa, per 12 horas cum aq. q. f. colatur. unc. xxx. adde fyr. aelth. unc. lij. ra. fumat 
aeger omni bihorio unc. ij. vel iij. And to make this medicine mo* e palatable to the 
patient, he occafionally added lemon juice, fpt. vitriol, or wine. 
.. ^ phyfician to the military hofpital of invalids, at Vienna. 
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