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fo common in hot climates. As an aromatic of the moft acrid and 
ftimulant kind it certainly may be found efficacious in fome paralytic 
and gouty cafes, or to promote excitement, where the bodily organs 
anguid and torpid 
It has been fuccefsfully exhibited in cynanche malig 
in 
what b^rDr. Mackitrick calls cachexia africana, d which he confiders 
as the moft frequent and* fatal predifpofition to difeafe among neg 
The dofe he directs is from fix to eight grains. 
Bergius gave the feeds of Capficum with 
intermittents 
■- 
fucce£ 
eis in inveterate 
I 
4 Duncan's Ed.,Difpenf. p. 25 
* He piefcribes them as follows : 
ft fern, pip ind g' vi. bacc. lauri fcrup. ii. f. pulvis, divedendus in tres partes aqua- 
.1 quamm prima portio fumenda incipiente primo rigors s fecunda poftridie eadera 
les, 
bora 3 tertia vera tertio die 
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