r 
/ 
t 
52 
/ 
\ix pu 
^ 
Iterans. d 
this root to be a perredly 
Although many 
and i] 
pro 
ofs 
of 
writers conficler 
fe medicine, yet we find 
its poifonous effeds,*' from which Murray collecls 
■^ 
the foil 
fymptoms 
u 
Fateor, difperfas hinc inde extare 
obfervationes contrarias, querelas 
de vomitionibus efFra^nis 
dis, hypercath 
torminibus, anxietate, fiti, fm 
1^ 
inde contn 
animi deliquiis, fudoribus frigidis, faucium ftrang 
lionibus* ftei 
convul 
e 
torpore quodam artuum et infueta rigid 
amm 
ventriculi et inteil 
P 
• • 
di£tis m 
?» 
quin morte pediffeq 
It feems to have been principally from its purg 
the ancients eileemed this 
diforders,. with a view to 
mental difeafes were fuppofed 
I 
Ltive quality that 
ledy in maniacal' 
evacuate the atra- bills, from which thefe 
fuch a powerfi 
1 
to be produced ; 
be often found neceifary in various cafes of 
though 
evacua 
s 
of mind, 
yet as they can be procured with more certainty and- fafety by 
med 
abandoned 
this 
f 
atholicon of antiquity is now almoft 
At prefent it 
IS- 
looked 
upo 
hiefly 
"ely 
as an 
alterative, and in this light is frequently employed in fmall dofes for 
attenuating; vifcid' humours, promoting the uterine and urinary 
difcharee 
o 
and 
openm 
inveterate obftrud 
of the remoter 
often proves a very powerful emmenagogue in plethoric 
glands 
habits, where fteel is ineffedual. or 
mprop 
It is alfo recom. 
Vide, Doering De M 
Hel 
cent. 4. obf. 12. 
N 
vol. 5 
326 
Fl 
ed. 
Hildanus Obf. Med. chir. 
Mat. M 
5 
Helv. 1. c. 
Whether our Hellebore be the fame 
Anticyra, 
Mount 01 
I. p. 557. Morgagni de fed. & cauf. rnorb* 
Hartman. Vet. Acad. Handl. a 1762. p. 276. 
fpecles as that faid to grow In the ifland of 
latin poets 
is no eafy matter to determine. From the accounts of Tournefort and Bellonius, who 
botanized thefe places^ a fpecies of this plant was found in great plenty, which the for- 
mer fuppofes to be the Hellebore of Hippocrates ; it differs from the fpecies here 
figured, by,having a large branched ftem, and alfo by its efFeas, for he found that a 
fcruple of the extrad brought on violent fpafms and convulfions. Many plants however 
are known to vary as much by a removal from their native foil and climate. 
' \^""P^'^ ^^* "^^^' ^^^P^"^^^°ry- Lewis's Mat. Med. 
t prsc. med. p. 138) fpeaks of it as the moft potent of all emmena- 
Mead 
gogues 
but Horn 
meflrui delle Donne, p. 192) found it often unfuccefsful 
(Diflertaz. mediche 
I 
mended 
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