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When we were reilramed in employing the infuHon of tobacco 
as a aiuretic, 
-" decod:ion 
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LS mentioned 
d I have fou 
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we 
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th 
peded to fuccecd better with 
by 
(T 
boil 
m 
this might be 
given in much larger dofes than the infufion : but we ftill found 
retaining fo much of the emetic quality, that we could not employ 
" it as a diuretic with 
being 
pted in its ufe by the fam 
r 
quality that had interrupted the ufe of the infufi 
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Befides the internal ufes of tob 
" remark 'th 
it h 
kewife b 
mentioned, I mufl now 
mmended for its virtues as 
advant 
lly employed. I have known the infufion employed with 
for fome obfl: 
but the 
many 
" fiances of its b 
abforbed, and proving thereby a violent poifon, 
dilTuade from fuch a pradice ; efpecially as there are other medi- 
cines,' of as much efficacy, that may be employed with much 
more fafety. Bergius recommends it to be employed as a fomen- 
tation ia the paraphymofis j but we have had no opportunity of 
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it. 
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The preceding quotation has completely anticipated what we have to offi 
fubjec^ of Tobacco 
upon 
fonous 
join the following references: — Ephem. Nat. Cur. Dec. 2. Ann 
we are 
told. 
by 
of fnuffi 
apoplexy, was induced- Hellwig Ohf. Phyf. Med, p. 45 
' fmoking 17 or 18 pipes of Tobacc 
fFecls, we fliall fub- 
). Obf. 131. />. 222. 
and at length fatal 
ives two inftances of the fame 
For the efFe£ls of Tobacco, 
by abforption from 
JlJIon's M. M. vol iu p 
Eph. at. Ann. 4, />. 46. et Ann. 2. Obf. 108. p 
Tobacco 
to be as fatal as the poifon of a viper. 
find that this was the cafe with the difFe 
perhn. Nat. p. S. 50. 315 
Albinus 
the experiment. -Dilf* de Tc 
effects, and was conftantly att< 
Ixx. Tobacco, taken by dc 
^.'11. 
Th 
• 
Abb 
^ 
JT O — -* ^ 
\tana. Vide Phil. TranJ. vol 
Gefner. Eptft. lib. ii. p* yg 
The fmoi 
a proper i 
efFci^s : it 
animation. 
Sydenham 
obilruaions and inveterate conftipations of the belly, ever fince 
and Haen, in his Rat. Med. gives feveral inftances of its good 
lended in cafes of afyphxia, or, what has been termed, fufpended 
Erratum. In the defcrlptlon of the calyx of the Tobacco-plant, 
read ha^f the length of the corolla. - . 
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