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Tlie fenfible qualities of this mfpiflated juice are not remarkable 
either to the fmell or to the tafte ; it Is inflammable, and diilblves 
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readily in watery or fpirituous menflrua. Elaterium is a 
powerful cathartic, and was frequently employed as fuch both by 
the Greek and Arabian phyficians, and its ufe has fmce been much 
commended in hydropic cafes, particularly by Pauli,'* Sydenham^ 
and Lifter/ It is undoubtedly the moft violent purgative in the 
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Materia Medica, and ought therefore to be adminiftered with ^ 
caution, and only where the milder cathartics have proved ineffecS , 
The dofe is from half a grain to three grains : the moft prudent and 
efFedual way in which dropfies are now treated by this remedy, is 
by repeating it at iliort intervals in fmall dofes. 
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fliould not be ufed until the milde 
. c « Elaterium five fecula Cucumeris agreftis, potenter, in permodica quantitate 
vires fuas exferit* in conturbanda alvo. ''''*' - « . 
copiofe egerendis,'" &c, " Op. p. 488 
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& fecibus, cum ferofis & aquofis humoribus 
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