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4 2 5 
ft when thrown into the body in large quantities, fo that at lead its 
* more fubtile parts may be diffufed over the whole fyitem, it may 
" be expe&ed to produce confiderable antifeptic effe&s. Its power 
fiftine and curing eangrene in the experiments of Collin, b are 
o 
^ 
" very remarkable ; but whether that power be owing to its antifeptic 
" virtue alone, or to its operation at the lame time on the nen 
fyftem, I would not rafhly determine. 
'* Both from its life in low, or what are called malignant fe\ 
<t 
T ers 
? 
" and from its antifeptic powers, it is highly probable that it h 
" of p-reat fervice in the confluent fmall-pox. c It is alio likely that 
" it may be of fervice in favouring the eruption of exanthemata, and 
" of bringing them back to the fkin, 
u fuddenly receded, though I h 
when from any caufe they 
> particular experience of t 
d 
" Thefe are the cafes of acute difeafes in which Camphire has 
" been ufeful ; and its ufe in many chronic cafes is equally well 
" authenticated. Whenever difeafes depend upon a mobility of the 
a nervous power, and an irregularity of its motions, it may be 
" expected that fuch a powerful fedative mould be of fervice. Ac- 
*' cordingly, many practitioners have reported it's virtues in hyfteric 
" and hypochondriac cafes ; and I myfeif have had frequent expe- 
" rience of it. 
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a 
In fpafmodic and convulfive affections it has alfo been of fervice; 
d even in epilepfy it has been ufeful. I have not indeed knowi 
d 
an epilepfy entirely cured by Camphire alone ; but I have had 
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Mindererus, Lib. de pefte. cap. 15. Jo. Crato : Epijl. Med. a Schulzio edit. p. 103. 
flartman in Pratt'. chymPatr: 364. * Schreiber, Obferv. et cogitata de pejlilentia. p. 58. 
fyq. and others. b L. c. P. 3. p. 145. See alfo ?o\xiz&\x Melanges de Chirurgie. p. 187. 
* 1 
c rhdki'yOpufc. path. p. 145. TilTot, Epift. Med. Pratt. £.237. C. L. Hoffmanns 
Nachricht von e. gut. Heilart d. Kinder b Hatter °n. 1764. in Vogel Lib. vol. 5. p. 34O. 
Collin,/, c. P. 3. cas. 22. 23. 24. In the Small-pox Hofpital Camphor is in general 
ufe, and our own experience warrants us in faying, that in the early itages of t;hs dif- 
eafe, and after proper evacuations nave been eiFedted, it fcldom fails, in doles of a 
fcruple, to relieve the pains of the head and loins, and to procure reft. But we have 
no reafon to think with Rofenftein and Boerhaave, that the afiivity of the variolous 
miafmata is to be fubdued by this medicine* 
Hoffman, /. c. p. 22. Home, Clinical Exp. p. 193. Locher, Oof. Pratt, p. 42. 
d 
Millar, 'on Afthma, C5V. p. 104. Collin, /. c. cas. 8. and others* 
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