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have written on the Simaruba, agree, th 



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fluxes it reftores the loft ton^ of the inteftines, allays their ipafmodic 

 motions, promotes the fecretions by urine and perfpiration, removes 

 that lownefs of fpirits attending dyfenteries, and difpofes the patient 



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fleep ; the grip 



tenefmus are taken off, and the ftools 



ed to their natural colour and confift 



it occafions no difturbance or uneafi 

 duces ficknels at the ftomach and vc 



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In a moderate dofe 

 large dofes it pro- 



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found from experience, that this me 

 nly iuccefsful in the third flage of dyfentery, where there 





fever, where too the ftomach ivS no way hurt, and w^here the o-ripes 



d tenef 

 fuch cafes»Dr. Mo 



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ed by a weaknefs of the bowels 



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five or fix hours, with four or five drops of laud 



of the decodion every 



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feful 



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d many others, prefcribed the 



, d found 

 The late Sir John Pringle, Dr. Huck 



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fimaruba in old and 



obllinate dyfenteries and diarrhcx 



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" warm climate 



thofe brou 



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the fiege of M 



Fluxes of this fort, which w^ere brought home from 



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fpeedily cured by this bark 



d the Havannah, were 



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urme, v/hich in thof( 



pletely 



high coloured and fcanty, was now voided in ereat abund 



and 

 had 



and perfpiration reilored 





that the 



maruba produced thefe 



Dr. James Lind at Hailar Hofpital, fay 





fooner and m. 



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when given m fuch quantity as to naufeate the ftomach. ■ Dr. Hu.. 

 baunders remarks, that if the Simaruba did not give relief in thre. 

 days, he expeded little benefit from its farther ufe -, but others hav( 

 tound ^it^ efficacious m fluxes, after a continued ufe for feveral weeks 



My own experience 



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t Jefulte patri 6-./^// collegio Parifmo adfcripto anno 171^ 

 ^cimma mifcrunt, ille in dyfenterla gravi, qua3 anno 17 18, Pa 



fuit tentatus, bones inde obfervatos effeaus 



723, reiterata experimenta uberius 



T„ffi r T ^^'^ /". "^'y ^^"^iJ cnronico be lienteri 

 Juffieu funt experti, m ha^morrhagia uteri Du BuilFon 



Tr^Lll 'i^l'i!"!"' ^'^^ P""^^? P^^dere, fed illam 



e, Schwenk & Ji 



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has ejus yirtutes non 



ipiam materiem quoque horum 



um excretioiies aquofae pronioveri obfv 



Spiclmun Mad. Med. p. 228 



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