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A peculiar 
effects, is that with opium 
Camph 
The ( 
faid 
ploy i 
h 
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confiderable 
of opiu 
is in 
h 
y perfo 
ttended with fome 
I diforder, 
do 
ferved ab 
and every prad 
knows it 
to b 
/^ 
by fome refpedable perfons, that Camphire joined with 
P 
e 
thefe uifor 
It may b 
fo. but I h 
not round it 
y exp 
I have fo 
to fleep, but commoniy witl 
turbulent dreams which fome 
th 
o 
fa 
e x 
doles of Camphire difp 
r 
fe ft 
onfufic 
)m the 
or 
h 
-e 
d 
and 
fe 
d I have not found that a fmall quantity of Camph 
f opium 
; h 
*1 Q. 
ifing the p 
of 
or of rend 
g 
a n v 
th 
effeds in increafing the power ot opium, or or rendering trie 
operation of it different from what it would have been if employed 
alone. 
H 
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a 
But againft the refpectable authonues 
ha\ 
I muft fufpecl: that my exp 
of Lalbnne and 
not been 
m au e 
properly or often enough 
< t 
There is ftill 
ftance of the improvement of a medicine 
re. Mr. Lafonne allures us, that 
by a combination with Camph 
Camphire, joined with the Peruvian bark, gives it more energy and 
force, whether it be to be employed for the purpofe of curing 
fever or gang 
d I believe this to be well founded 
(C 
Aft 
of its 
faid ab 
thus treating of the virtues of Camphire, we muft fp 
dole 
d 
hib 
It will app 
arlv fro 
what 
a. IV 
is 
that it may be given in dofes of very different q 
tities ; and it appears to me from many 
that dofes of a fev 
all, 
giv 
ains, repeated only after long intervals, have hardly any effect 
d 
obtain fenfible effects from it, it 
ft eith 
** 
b 
e 
in large dofe 
der that of twenty grains, or, if g 
fmaller dof 
muft be repeated frequently after fhort in 
tervals. The latter practice is preferred by fome eminent pracl 
tioners. 
To what length in 
way we may proceed, I 
experience enough to determine with any precifi 
From th 
effects of two fcruples given in one dofe in the cafe narrated ab 
d in another quoted from Dr. Hoffman, it would app 
fuch dofes are violent and dang 
b 
th 
from fome other exp 
h Halle, Mem. de la Societe de Med, torn. clt. p. J 3 
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