^ 
Gi. 
A. 
it promotes all the fecretions :" 
T 
Haller obferves that it partaiies 
of th 
e 
milder powers of the Nightfhade, joined to a refolvent and faDona- 
1 
ceous quality;'^ and the opinion of 
ergiiis feeiiis to coincide with 
that of Murray : " Virtus ': pellen;^ urinam, fudorem, menfes, lochia. 
The difeafes in which we find it recommended 
confines its 
fputa; mundincans. 
by different authors are extrem.eiy various ;* but Bei 
■B ■» 1 ri 
itlb 
U 
fe to '^rheumatifmuSj retendo menfiiim & lochiorum. 
Diilc 
a. 
mara 
alfo, by the experiments of Razoux and others, to 
have been ufed v/ith advantage in fome obftinate cutaneous aifedions/ 
Dr. Culkn fays, " We have employed only the ftipites or flender 
" twigs of this fhrub ; but as we have collected them they come out 
very unequal, fome parcels of them bein 
(C 
u 
iC 
u 
(( 
u 
u 
u 
very 
mild and inert 
and others of them confiderably acrid. In the latter ftate we have 
employed a decoction of them in the cure of rheui^atifm, fome- 
times with advantage, but at other times without any effed:. 
Though the Dulcamara 
lo 
here inferted in 
the catalogue of 
diuretics, it has never appeared to us as pov/erful in this 
for in all the trials made here, it has hardly ever been obferved 
to be in any meafure diuretic.*"" This plant is generally given in 
decodion or infufion, and to prevent its exciting naufea, it is ordered 
to be diluted with milk, and to begin with fmall dofes, as large dofes 
have been found to produce very dangerous fymptoms.' Razou 
r- \ 
direds the following: R Stipitum Dulcam. rec. drac. fs. in aqua^ 
font. unc. 1 6 coquatur ad unc. 8. This was taken in the dofe of 
") 
*= Per omnia colatoria corporis eiEcaciam excrcent. 1. c. 
_ i 
* Vis partiin folanaceaj mitis, partlm refolvens, quafi faponacea, 1. c. 
4. I 
" Mat. Med. 131. 
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^ See the Inftances adduced by Haller a^nd Murray. 1. c. Of the chief of thefe we 
y mention Phthifis, Lues venerea. Peripneumonia notha, Scorbutus, I6leruSj Afthma, 
&c« on the authority of Boerhaave, Sauvages, Sager, and others. 
- € Journ. de Medecine. t, 22. p. 236. 
h Mat* Med. ii* 354. ^ 
m'^ 
a 
> \ 
V 
^ Vide Linnsjus Diff". de Dulcamara, p. 9. Haen. rat. med. Tom. iv. p. 247. 
'^ Largior Dulcamaras ufus initio et antequam ventriculus ilii affueverit, naufeam et 
■ vcmitum excitat, quin convulfiones et deliria, et notante cl. Govan, protrailus paralyfin 
ling 
use. 
Vide Murray L c. 
No. 
C c 
three 
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