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in chronic and painful complaints; it is ufed for the fame purpofes 
for which-we employ the officinal zthers, to which it feems to have 
a confiderable affinity; the Cajeput however, is more potent and 
pungent: taken into the ftomach, in the dofe of five or fix drops, it’ 
heats and ftimulates the whole fyftem, proving at the famé time a 
very certain diaphoretic, by which probably the good effects it is 
faid to have in dropfies and intermittent fevers, are to be explained. 
For its efficacy in various fpafmodic and convulfive affections, it is 
highly efteemed ; and numerous inftances of its fuccefsful employ- 
ment are publifhed by different authors." It has been alfo ufed both 
internally and externally with much advantage in feveral other obfti- 
nate diforders, as palfy, hypochondrical and hyfterical affetions, 
deafnefs, defective vifion, tooth-ach, gout; theumatifm, menftrual 
obftructions, ‘herpetic eruptions, . 8c. of which Thunberg gives a 
particular relation.’ : : : 
The dofe is from two to fix and even twelve drops. 
The berries and leayés of Myrtus communis, and the bark of 
Myrtus. caryophyllata, or cafie caryophyllate cortex, referable to 
this order, have alfo been admitted into the Materia Medica; the 
former in the character of an afomati¢ and aftringent, and the latter 
as a fubftitute for cloves. 
wifh for a fuller account of this article. | 
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The odour of cajeput oil: is remarkably deftructive to infeéts: a few drops, in a cabi« 
het or drawer, wherein animal or vegetable fpecimens of natural hiftory are kept ina 
dtied ftate; have on this account been found very ufeful. 
& Thefe are refpectively cited by Murray, to whofe work we refer thofe readers who 
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