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Afafoetida IS a medicine m very general ufe, and is 
more efficacious ^ remedy than any of the oth 
fetid 
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gums 
It IS 
moll commonly employed in hyfteria, hypochondriafis^ fome fymp- 
toms of dyfpepfia, flatulent colics, and in moil of thofe difeafes 
termed nervous : but its chief ufe is derived from its antifpafmodic 
efFeds; and it is thought to be the moll powerful remedy we poflefs for 
thofe peculiar convulfive and fpafmodic aflfedions which oft 
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firll of thefe difeafes, both taken into the ftomach and 
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the way of enema 
anihelminthie, expedora 
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commended as an emmenagog 
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antiallhmatic, and anody 
Where 
we wilh it to ad immediately as an antifpafmodic 
it Ihould be ufed 
fluid form 
that of tindure 
In the London, Pharmacopoeia, a fpirituous tindure of it is direded, 
and it is alfo an ingredient in the Pilulae e Gummi. In the Edinburgh 
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Pharmacopoeia, Afafoetida is ordered in the Tinaura fuligini^s 
pilule gummofs 
ammon. vinos. 
in the form of tindure with the Spt. Sal 
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Dr. Cullen prefers It to the Gum Ammon as an expectorant 
Afafoetida flio 
therefore have a double advantage in fpafmodic afthmas 
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