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bears an mconfiderable proportion to the refi 
have 
no 
athartic p 
but as a diui 
and ] 
it is 
found 
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adive. — That Jalap is an efficacious and fafe purgative daily exp 
ly 
fnufl evince, but according as th 
more or lefs 
effeds muft 9f courfe vary, Hoffman thought it particu 
r efm , 
larly improper and unfafe to adminifter this medicine to children ; 
but Dr, Cullen obferves, that if Jalap " be well triturated before 
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exhib 
v^ith a hard powder, and the cryftals of 
are the 
fitteft for the purpofe, it will operate in leffer dofes than when taken 
by itfelf, and at the fame time veiy moderately and without griping. 
Except wh 
g 
very large dofes, I have not found it to b 
heating to the fyflem ; and if it be triturated with a h 
medicine for childr 
fu 
becomes 
moderate dofes 
fafe 
ar. It 
this form they will readily 
which in 
tafte 
Jalap 
5 
in 
arg 
dofes 
recommended as an anthelmintic 
general efficacy in dropfies was 
d 
r> 
the jalap itfelf has very little 
vfhen joined with calomel, is 
hydrag( 
a 
g 
d fl- 
its 
Hydropicorum 
d 
the different conflitutions and conditions of body in which 
F 
efpecially indicated 
ufe forbidd 
we may cite the opinion of 
Geoffroy : " Obfervandum tamen Jalapam non convenire in febrib 
acutis, neque calidis & ficcis conftitutionibus 
In his enim, ficut 
purgantia acria & irritantia, calorem intenfum & fsepe inflam 
matorium in vifceribus 
d 
parcioremque imo 
f^p 
evacuaiionem promovet. Sed iis convenit, qui frigid^ funt temp 
am 
& fero fcatentes, fpeciatim in hydrope, anafarca, & cachexia." M M 
In the Pharmacopoeias, we have Jalap in the form of tindure and of 
dired it alfo in powder, with 
extrad 
and the Edinburgh Colleg 
twice its weight of the cryftals of 
powder is commonly from one fcrupl 
powder it may be double this quantity, whici 
The dofe of the fimple 
to two; of the compound 
1 
5 grains of the extrad 
arly equal 
about two drams of the tindure 
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