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throat, followed with fingultus, which continued till vomitmg was 



excited/ 1 

 by tailing thi 



gins alfo experienced very diftreffing fymptoms merely 

 infufion/ The root, taken in large doles, difcovers 

 fiich acrimony, and operates upwards and downwards with fuch 

 violence that blood is ufually difcharged :^ it likev/ife ads very power- 

 fully upon the nervous fyftem, producing great anxiety, tremors, 

 vertigo, fyncope, lofs of voice, interrupted refpiration, finking of 

 the pulfe, convulfions, fpafms, cold fweats, ^c.*" Upon openin 

 thofe wdio have died by the effeds of this poifon, the ftomach dif 

 covered marks of inflammation, with corrofions of its interior coat, 

 and the lungs have been found inflamed, and their veflels much 

 difl:ended with dark blood.' 



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The ancients, though fuflPiciently acquainted with the virulency of 

 their white Hellebore, were not deterred from employing it internally 

 in feveral difeafes, efpecially thofe of a chronic and obftinate kind, 

 as mania, melancholia, hydrops, elephantiafis, epilepfia, vitiligo, lepra, 

 rabies canina, &c. they confidered it the fafer when it excited vomit- 

 ing, and Hippocrates wifhed this to be its firfl: efl^ed. To thofe of 

 weak conftitutions, as women, children,, old men, and thofe labour- 

 ing under pidmonary complaints, its exhibition was deemed unfafe; 

 and even when given to the robufl; it was thought neceflary to mode- 

 rate its violence by difl'erent combinations and preparations; for it 

 was frequently obferved to effed a cure not only by its immediate 

 adion upon the primse vise, but when no fenfible evacuations was 

 promoted by its ufe.,'' , 



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M. M..^p. 819^ t Ettmuller. Opsr. torn, 'lu P. 1, p. 435 



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f. 48.. Lorry de Melanch. ii.. p. 313. Borrich. 'f^. HaK vol. v'l., p. 145. Albert. 

 Jurifprud. Med. vol. vi. p. 718 Bred. Samml. 1724. P. 2. p. 269. p. S37- .' 

 Berol. Dec. 2. vol. 6. Mifc. Nat. Cur. D^r. 2. Jnn. 2. p. 23.9. *'^^. ^^^°^- ^^^■' 



Mifc. Nat. Cur. cit. . 



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Bergius fays, " Ego vix a memet impetrare potero,. ut 

 ufum internum cufquam fuafurus fim, nifi fumma adhibita circumfpiclentia ;^ etenim 

 conftat, earn, in fatfs parca dbfi propinatam, (aepe horrenda fymptomata excitafle, iLt 

 fitim, cardialgiam, tormina, fingultum, fuffocationes, convulfiones, tremores, inflammatio- 

 nem primarum viarum, Iipothymias, fudorem frigidum, immo & mortem." /• c. 



Hippocr. m^i EKK^^o^icri^5 in Opei. ed. Lind. iotn, /.- p, 610. . Et Aphorifm. Self. 



Jph* 13 — lb. 



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