43° 
the unction 
of camphorated oil, and even the exhibition of a 
Quantity of Camphire internally. The practitioners of this country 
hav 
r» 
loft their faith in the power of Camphire in correCtin 
preventing the ftrangury that 
acrimony of cantharides ; and for 
might other wife arife, they truft entirely to a larg< 
e 
g the 
O 
exhibition of 
Arabic emulfion, and to the planer s not being allowed to lie on 
too long. 
t ( 
Another virtu 
f"!7 £» 
1 
afcribcd to Camphire in combination, 
is its 
moderating the action of mercury ; and if the faline preparation 
of mercury are triturated with a portion of Camphire, this abflraCh 
mercur 
y 
and 
a part of the acid that had been united with the 
therefore renders the preparation more mild than before, and at 
the fame time does not deprive 
entirely the 
preparation of much 
of its deobflruent virtue. This we have had experience of in that 
very acrid preparation of mercury the turbeth mineral, and alfo in 
the mercurius dulcis or calomel, which, by being triturated with 
Camphire, become lefs purgative, and lefs ready to excite faliva- 
tion. 
H 
ow 
flu* this mitigation of the preparations of mercury 
leaves them equally powerful as before in the cure of fyphiiis, I 
cannot certainly determine ; but am of opinion that it does not, 
if they be employed in the fame quantities as they would have 
been before. 
t c 
Th 
s 
mitig 
f th 
fal 
combination with C 
practitioners go faith 
prep 
of mercury, by 
mphire, will be readily admitted ; but man) 
d alledge th 
mercury, in every 
dition, united with Camphire, becomes a more mild fubltance, lefs 
irritating, to the fyftem, while it is equally powerful in curing the 
af 
ich it is. other wife adapt 
of -the- practitioners of .Fran 
I muft admit the expe- 
this matter, but thofe of 
this country know nothing of it; and 1 can aflert. that in 
trials, 
an> 
from 
a quantity of Camphire added to our common mercui 
in the ufual quantity 
ointment neither prevented the und 
ild than ufual 
g falivation, nor rendered th 
fymptoms of 
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* Raulin, Obferv. de Medeclne. p. 266. 
.Defpatureaux in Hall Dijf, Pra£t. vol. u p. 531 
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