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of Iweet mercury, or 



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of rliubarl) 



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ferved, th 

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fame happy eifed;s did not follow 



to be oL 



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with 



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:s ufe in 

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this 



itive Tenders its ufe fafe^ and removes all 

 danger of convulfions of the eyesV although neither oL rut^^ fahlnce 



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fafer 



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fubft 



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along with it. 



It 



IS, in 



2 it in large dofes than in fmall ; for, from the 

 latter more frequently the giddinefs, dimnefs of the fight, and 

 convulfions, &c. follow ; whereas. 



from 



large dofes 



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known -any Other effed; than its proving emetic or violently cathar 



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To 



a 



child 



f two y 



of 



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g 



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wh 



of" the root twice a-day, without h 



grains 



than making her dull 



d 



g 



£C 



and 



ddy, I prefcribed twenty 



had been taking 



any other efFea: 



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.A £ 

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cc 



<c 



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. cc 



morning 

 away five larg 



g, which purged her brifkly 



f K c. r_ - . 1 • 



d 



D grams 

 brought 



After fome months an increafed dofe had 

 the fame good effeds. I prefer the root to the other parts of the 



of which, when properly dried, I gave from twelve to fixty 



^1 

 1^ 



feventy grains in fubft 



quantity of 



three. 



In infufion it may be given to the 

 four drams twice a day. I have found 



that, by keeping, the plant lofes its virtue in part ; for forty g 

 of the root which has not been gathered above two months, will 

 op 



nths 



as ftrongly as fixty which has been kept for £ 



• 



In Dr. Garden's fubfeq 



letters, addreiled to Dr. Hope 



the 



years 1764 and 1766, the efficacy of this root in worm cafes is further 



confirmed, and he obferves, that the root keeps better than he at firft 



bought, having lately ufed it feveral years old with great fuccefs. 





In what he calls continued or remitting: low worm ft.^.^, 

 its efhcacy promoted by. the addition of rad. fepentar. virg 



he fou 



^ing, 



This root, when taken In large dofes, and not readily paffing off by ftool 



1 



affea 



J 



by admlnlfl 



effea which is noticed both by Linning and Garden 



^ According to Linning, " thirty large worms, the Uretes^ were 



€ 



by 



>w 



N 



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8 As this plant feems to be received into the r\lateria Medlca Drincipally on theautho- 



his own words. 



^Ity ofDr. Garden, we have judged 



account in 



ARISTOLOCHIA SERPENTARlA^ 



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