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mow a contrary effect, they are fuch as occafionally occur x from the 
ufe of medicines univerfally admitted to be the moft powerful of this 
elafs, and are to be explained as a fecondary effect upon the principle 
of a reaction in the fyftern ; and our own experience, as well as that of 
feveral others noticed below, who have given it fuccefsfully in in- 
flammatory complaints, leads us to conclude with Dr. Cull 
inflammation is never the direct operation of this fubftance. 
en, that 
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Refpecting the ufe of this important medicine, in different 
difeafes, we fhall follow Dr. Cullen, whofe words we mail tranferibe 
adding, however, proper notes and references, conformably to th' 
plan hitherto purfueel in this work. 
* 
" It has been much employed in fevers of all kinds, particularly 
in nervous fevers attended with delirium and much watchfulnefs • 
and in fuch I have frequently employed it with advantage. Some 
time ago, I have often feen it employed by my fellow-pra&itioners 
in fuch cafes : and that the good effe&s of it did not always appear, 
I imputed it to its being ufed only in fmall quantities. *" 
came into the free ufe of wine and opium, Camphire has been little 
employed in the pradice of this country. The ufe of it, however, 
has been very fully eftablifhed by fome of the moft eminent phyfi- 
cians on the continent : among thefe I reckon the late learned and 
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a 
experienced Werlhoff/ who often employed it in many inflamma- 
tory difeafes with great benefit, and plainly gives us his opinion in 
favour of its refrigerant power. 
The ufe of this medicine has been efpecially remarkable in putrid 
- s, z of which indeed we have not many inftances in this coun- 
try : but from the very remarkable antifeptic powers which it 
difcovers in experiments out of the body, a it is very probable that 
fever 
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when 
nnlfi.w^f fayS> " Y idi enIm , in multIs > <l uibus camphora majori dofi exhibita fuit, 
pulium celerrimum, faciem ruberrimam. ' 
phrenitidem lethalem fecutam mine. 
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y 
2. inf. c. 
Comm. Norimberg, 1734. iff 1735. 
a Pringle, 1. c. 
Pringle, Dif. oftheJnny.p. 310. 316. 
oculos torvos inflammatos, convulfiones et 
Method, med. febr. p. 57. 
We may alfo notice Huxham and Hoffman, 
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app. p. 12. 
Cm o 'Hhr A a„ a S r "<r *> ~~' * * " • Reverius, Obf. et hill. Cent. i. Obf. 24. &? 29 
.circa morb. P. iiu p. ufi.fqf. 
Ludwig, Jdverf. Med. Pracl. vol. 1. P. ,. p. „. _ 
Even in the Plague, fee TiiTot, Epijl. ad Hall. p. 237 
Huxam, 
62. Collin, Oy. 
Mindereus 
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