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ploying at the fame time nitre, vinegar, and fome other remedk 
h are fuppofed to contribute much to the virtues of Camphire 
but we are clear that mania is a difeafc 
rith refped to its caufes, and that then: 
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n cafes of an 
able diverfity ^ 
fes of it only 
organic affection of th 
hich Camphire is properly adapt 
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nedy can be of ufe.J 
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fuppofed that Camph 
any 
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we are not furprifed to find that it has been given alfo interna 
in c 
afes of 
rheumatifm 
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d it is faid to have been with 
We have no experience of it, becaufe we have found 
another method of cure generally fuccefsful 
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its external ufe, as ofi 
g the rheumatic pains of the j 
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have often experienced, and^have no doubt of Camphire having 
peculiar power in taking ( 
of rheumatifm and gout, 
of common experience : i 
in cafes both 
In the cafe of rheumatifm 
the cafe of eout it is more 
but I 
have had the following particular example of it. A gentleman had 
brought from the Eafl Indies an oil of Camphire, a native fubftance, 
which feemed, by its fmell and tafte, to be no other than Camphire' 
in that form, and which I perceive to be mentioned by naturalifts 
as a native fubftance, produced by feveral trees in the Eaft Indies. 
This the perfon polfeffed of recommended to all his acquaintances 
as an infallible remedy for gout and rheumatifm ; and a gentleman 
who had often laboured under the gout, and then felt the pains of 
imphor in eight maniacal cafes, declares it to be « totally 
in one of thefe cafes two drams of Camphor, a fcruple of 
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Dr. Ferriar, who gave C 
xrfelefs in thefe diforders; ,: 
mufk, and eight grains of r j 
fmalleft impreffion upon the difeal'e. 
% We may here remark, that n 
effects of a limilar Unrl 
Med. Hijl. & Reflexions, p 
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frequently fuperinduce a general ft 
local affe&ions 
Camphor has been found more efpecially ufeful. 
of mania, in which 
Rofenft. Jpot. p. 7. Coll 
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