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X 
dram of the dried 
be Infufed for four hours in half 
pint of boiling water, adding to the ftrained liquor an ounce of any 
One ounce of this infufio 
twice a day, is 
y^ 
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It is to be continued in thefe dofes till it either ads 
, the flomach, the pulfe, (which it has a remarkable 
bo\^ 
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fpirituous water, 
a medium dofe. 
upon the kidneys 
power of lowering) ^ 
without being aftoniilied that he could fuppofe he had been giving this medicine « in the 
" manner prefcribed by me."t — -i am fully fatisfied, that, had I prefcribed it m fuch 
c-fes fuch forms, fuch dofes, and fuch repetitions ^s he has done, the efteas would, 
in my hands, have been equally ufelefs, and equally deleterious. 1 muft therefore fup- 
pofe that he had forgotten what I had written, without being confcious that his memory 
had deceived him. Had it been otherwife, after perufing the cafes I had publifhed at pages 
XX. and pao-es 151, kc. of my Account, &c. he would hardly have thought it neceffary 
dp 
foucrht for further proofs, that an aaive and ufeful medicine might be employed fo as to 
prove a deleterious poifon. 
f Memoirs of the Medical Society of London, vol. 11. page 169. 
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ARUM MACULATUM. ' COMMON ARUM, or WAKE-ROBIN 
STNONTMJ, Arum. Pharm. Lond. '& Edi 
Arum fol 
fagittatis, fpatha reda 
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ylindrica. HaL Stirp.Helv, n. 13 
Arum minus. ■ Ca?nerar:Epit. p. 367. Arum maculatum et vulg 
macul 
Baub. Pin, ' 1 95 
Aru 
maculatum. Park. 37 
A 
are maculatum et 
are. Gerard. H. 834 
Rail Plijl. i: 
Arum Macul 
8. Wake-Robin Cuckow-pint 
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n 
D 
50s 
F/or. Lond. 
ot. 
Arrang. 1012. 
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Flor. Cant. 342 
Varietates funt 
Oi 
Aruni vuleare non maculatum. Bauh. Pin. 
^ Arum maculatum, maculis candidis, vel nigris. Baiih, Pin, 
If * \^ 
y Arum italiciim^ foliis haftatis acutis, petiolis longiiTimis, 
fpatha maxima ere6la. Mill. Di£l. 
Clafs Gynandria. Ord. Polyandria. 
V 
L. Gen. Plant. ~ 1028. , 
Eff. Gen. Ch. Spatha monophylla, cucullata. ' Spadix fupra midus. 
inferne femineiis, medio ftamineus. 
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Sp. Ch. 
A. acaule, foliis haftatis ixitegerrimis, fpadice clavato 
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