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The power which this plant poflcfTes in openbg uterhie obflruc- 



tlons is confidered to be fo great, that we are told it has been fie- ' 



quently employed, and with too much fuccefs, for purpofes the moft 

 infamous and unnatural." It feems probable however that its eiTeds 

 in this way have been fomewhat over rated, as it is found very fre, 

 quently to fail as an- emmenagogue, though this, in fome meafure 

 may be afcribed to the fmallnefs of the^dofe^ in which it has beeu 

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ibed by phyficians ; for Dr. Cullen obferves 



'' that 

 Savin is a very acrid and heatmg fubftance, and I have been often 



upon account of thefe qualities, prevented from employing it in 

 the quantity perhaps necelTary to render it emmenagogue. I muft 

 own however that it fliows a more powerful determination to the 

 uterus than any other plant I have employed ; but I have been 

 frequently difappointcd in this, and its heating qualities always 

 require a great deal of caution." ' Dr. Home appears to have had 

 very great fuccefs with this medicine, for in five cafes of amenorrhoea 

 which occurred at the Royal Infirmary at Edinburgh, four were cured 

 by the Sabina,^ which he gave in powder from a fcruple to a dram 

 twice a day. He fays it is well fuited to the debile, but improper in 

 plethoric habits, and therefore orders repeated bleedings before its 

 exhibition. Externally Savin is recommended as an efcharotic to foul 

 ulcers, fyphillitic, warts, &c.'' , 



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• Hinc in uterine fluxu ciendo adeo potens, qua vi abufae fubinde feruntur communi fere 

 cfFato, a Galeno inde tempore deduito, fceleftae matres ad abortum excitandum, fed 

 baud abfque proprio vitae periculo vel ante partum vel rriox poft iftum. (Storch Hcbam- 

 nienb. p. 220.) ' Sufpe^tae huic naturae fubfcripfit judicium Facultatis medicae Lipfienfis* 



( Ammann. med. crit. p. 42, See Murray App. Med. vol. /. p. 42. And Haller 1. c. 



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