278 



^ir n 



m 



n 



vomiting ant 



purging were very generally produced, and the 



thrown 



the ftomach was conftantly mixed with hile • 



rednefs frequently appeared on the face 



and 



matter 



a florid 



various cutaneous 



/ 



-efflorefcences upon the body ; and, in fome pleuretic, fymptoms with 



fever fupervened, fo as to require bleeding, nor were the more alarm- 

 ring affeilions of fpafins and convulfions unfrequent. Critical evacua- 

 tions, we are told, were often very evident, many fweated profufely 

 \n fome the urine was confiderably increafed, in others the laliva and 

 the mucous difcharges : alfo uterine obflrudtions, of long continuance 

 were often removed by this drug. 



Veratrum has likewife been found ufeful in epilepfy, and other con- 



vulfive complaints,'' but the difeafes in which its efficacy feems leafl 



equivocal, are thofe of the fkin,"^ as fcabies and different prurient 



-eruptions, herpes, morbus pediculofus, lepra, fcrophula, &c. and in 



many of thefe it has been fuccefsfully employed both internally and 



externally. . 



As a powerful ftimulant, and irritating medicine, its ufe has been 



reforted to only in defperate cafes, and then it is firfl to be tried in 

 very fmall dofes, in a diluted ftate, and to be gradually increafed, ac- 

 <:ording to the effeds. 



J 



P Greding, /. c. See alfo Smyth \n Medical Co?n?nuntcations^ voL u p. 207 

 Its fuccefs in thefe complaints Is mentioned both by the ancient and modern w 



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I 



Smyth relates three cafes. See 



The Veratrum nigrum of Lin. or Helleborus albus flore atro-rubente of C. Bauh 

 faid to produce the fame efFe6ls as the Veratru 



See Lorry, de melanch 



p. 289. ^ Lmnseus, Amoen. Acad. vol. ix. p 



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0opx quod 



loQui. f^, C. Baulu I 



Helleb 



Veratrum dicitur quod 



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LILIUM 



C AN D I DUM 



