f 
405 
Tlieirniatifms in various parts of Europe/ The leaves, which are th 
part direded for medicinal ufe, have a bitterHh fubaftringent taite 
d 
as 
well 
as the bark and young branches, manifeft a degree of 
Taken in large dofes they prove a narcotic poifon, pro- 
acrimony. 
ducing thofe fymptoms which we have defcribed as occafioned 
many of the order Solanacese. 
As a powerful and a£t 
die me this ft 
y pi 
i 
a 
bly be 
u 
found d,n important addition to the Materia Medica. Dr. Home 
tried it unfuccefsfully ki fome cafes of acute rheumatifm, fay 
appears to begone of the moft powerful fedatives which we have, as i 
moft of the trials it made the pulfe remarkably flow, and in one patier 
reduced it 38 beats." And in other cafes in which the Rhododendro 
has 
it 
k 
and accordingly 
*? _ f MP1 
ufed at Edinburgh, it has been produdive of good erTeds 
poeia 
Th 
now introduced into the Edinburgh Phai 
manner of ufmg this 
putting two drams of the dried 
by the Sib 
was 
by 
ten ounces of boiling water, keeping it near a boilin 
night, ar * 
earthen pot, with about 
h 
d this they took in the morning, and by repeating 
for 
a 
four times generally efTe&ed 
thirft, a 
affected. 
<fcg 
*# 
of delirium 
It is faid to occafion heat 
and -a peculiar fenfation of the parts 
Procop 
Demidof of Mofcow 
yed 
* 'Tct " *semiaoj or ivioicow, employed a tinctur 
hemorrhoidal complaints. Neue nordifibe Beytmge. vol 7. p 
n&ure of the leaves alfo 
m 
399 
In Siberia 
Germany. See Pallas Flor. Kofli 
breaft, by Butzow> with great fuccefs. It is in common 
Rhodod. Chryfantho 
I 
783 
and J. H. Zahn. Dijf. Med, 
See £/*/&r in Gw^Z 
« Thefe effeds were produced on a.goat, which, by 
ieized in a few minutes with tremblings, fopor, &c. 
^tSS^S^ b ^i Stel1 ^ ^ the Cffeas ° f ***** have ^en found 
vary according to its folum natale : thus, that produced 
uniformly narcotic, that of another cathartic, and a 1 
iymptom occafioned by a third. Vide Gmelin. /. *. 
of fuffocation 
the 
<P 
e Clin, Exper. p, 140 
Sec Duncan's Edink Difpenf. p. 364 
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