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d not widely difFerent in their fenfible qu 



able to fuppofe them analogous in then* medicinal effects. Berizo 



however, though 

 quently prefcribed 



ely employed in a fnnpl 



ft 



has b 



ped 



and we find it 



fre 



p! 



hs. aflhmas. obftrudio 



o 



f th 



ofm 



d 



ended with much fever 

 the w^ay of fumigation 



e lungs, 



ecommended for 



d phthifical 



has alfo been ufed 



for the refol 



of indo 



fays 



tumours. Dr. Cullen, who claffes Benzoine with the ftimulant 



cc 



The flowers, which is the 



preparation employed 

 acid kind, of confiderable 





are 



manifeftly a faline fubftance of 

 ony and ftimulant power, as I have found in every trial of them I 



h 



mad 



If has been recommended as a peroral, and I have 

 ployed it in fome afthmatic cafes v/ithout finding it of ufe j and in 



In 



a dofe of half a dram it appeared to be heating and hurtful 



the pharmacopoeias the flowers are direded in the tinclura 

 camphor 



compofit 



» • 



opu 



and it is ordered in fubftance in the tindura benzoe 



3 



m 



Mat. Med. vol il. p 



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may alfo notice, that Dr. Cullen think 



benzoine Is a fmgular compofition of an acid fait with an oily and refnious fubftance; 

 but as a faline matter of the fame kind is found in moft of the turpentines and balfams 



It apnears to me. that- thf^ h^nr.^:,-, ^(f^.^A^ o„ 1 r„_ i-.-.-- _.. .1.: r.- ^ 



all thefe." 



affords 



■^to 



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APIUM PETROSELINUM, 



