-.". 
65 
nam 
r 
convulfiones, c^citatem, fop 
»> 
<( 
g 
de 
mentiam, mortemque ipfam." Murray App. Med. vol. i. p. 215. 
Cicuta feems to have been, both by the Greek and Arabian phyfi 
remedy for tumours 
cians, very generally employed as 
ulcers,' and cutaneous eruptions 
(C 
an ext 
it was 
alfo 
:eum 
thought 
to h 
peculiar power *' frangere ftimulum vene: 
fiance is the more remarkable, as Stoerck, Berg 
d 
recommend its internal ufe for compl 
adduce proofs of its aphrodifiacal powers 
of a contrary 
ive the 
s circum- 
d others, 
ture. and 
Baron S 
Hemlocl 
publicati 
as his fads only h 
was undoubtedly the firft phyfician, who brought 
pute as a medicine of extraordinary efhcacy, by his 
and his claim to this diftinftion is the ftro 
fm 
been able to fupp 
Its 
putat 
to 
any very confiderable extent ; nay it never fucceeded fo v/ell as 
when under his own direction 
confined to the neighbourhood 
which he refided, and to th 
prad:ic 
»a 
of thofe phyfi 
with 
whom he lived in habits of intimacy and friendfhip.* To 
e 
efficacy of Cicuta, 
ive a catalogue 
all the difeafes in which he fets forth the pov 
in four fucceffive books on the fubjed:, would be 
of moil of the chronic difeafes with which human nature is afflided 
And Bergius, though he experienced no advantage by employing i 
m true cancerous 
ffediohs. Hill recommends its ufe in " Ul 
fordida & fiphilitica. Scabies, Morbi cutis. Gonorrhoea, Leucorrhoe 
Phthifis, Imp 
virilis, Rheumatifi 
chr 
and he confiders its Virlus to be " narcotica, refolvens, fupp 
Scrophula 
promovens, diiiretica 
utility of Hemlock is 
?» 
eflimate with precifion the medicinal 
To 
very eafy tafk. Had Dr. Stoerck 
publi 
^ Areteus de Morb. Acut. L. 2. c, ii. Et incrementa mammarum & tellium 
cohlbere, Anaxilaus & Diofcorides. 
v 
uam 
quadrlgenarloj qui omnem erefitionem penis perdiderat, poftinde tamen plures liberos 
procreavit. Bergius '•■■"'' ^ ^ .. . 
efFe6ts in this way. 
Mat, Med 
Dr. Cullen, however, never difcovered 
k The general inefficacy of Hemlock experienced in this country, induced phyficians 
at firft to fuppofe that this plant, in the environs of Vienna and Berlin, differed widely 
from ours, and this being ftated to Dr. Stoerck, he fent a quantity of the extra6t, pre- 
vas found to be equally unfuccefsful, and to diiFer 
* Collin, Locher, Quarin, Leber, &c. 
refped from the Englilh extra<3: 
cations 
