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period of the diforder we often find the pulfe languid, and the coun- 
tenance pale, though pains in the loins and head are at the fame time 
very fevere ; thefe fymptoms, with reftleimefs, and other figns of irrita- 
bility, which appear for fome days after the attack of the difeafe, are 
derably relieved by opium ; to which however we ufually add cam 
phor and vinum antimonii tartarifat 
takin 
body fufficiently open by the frequent ufe of a proper cath 
always to keep the 
I 
hemorrhagic diforders the ufe of opium is inferred from 
known effects in reflrainin| 
unlefs the haemorrhag 
but unl< 
irritation, 
b 
pt that of fweat ; 
of the paffive kind, or excited by 
nded with inflammation, opium may produ 
con 
liderable mifchief, and therefore its ufe in thefe complaints requires 
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sat circumfpection. 
In dyfentery opium, though not to be confidered as a remedy 
may ho 
be occafionally employed to moderate the violence of 
* fymptoms. 
In diarrhoea, efpecially when the acrimony has been carried off by 
ontinuance of the difeafe, opium is a certain and efficacious remedy. 
In cholera and pyrolis, opium is the remedy chiefly trailed to. 
it is employed with laxatives ; and no doubt often pre- 
In cholic 
and in 
and inflammation, by relieving the fpafm. Even 
erated her 
it is often found to allay the vomiting 
the fpafms, the pain, and fometimes to diminifh the inflammation 
and prevent the gangrene of the ftrangulated g 
> 
Opium has been lately recommended for the 
of the venereal 
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difeafe ; and inflances are adduced in which this medicine fucceeded, 
where mercury had failed ; yet few practitioners, we apprehend, will 
truft to opium alone in thefe compla: 
however, to be an ufeful auxiliary- and 
mercury. 
it is generally allowed 
greatly affift the aclion of 
Its ufe in preventing and flopping the progrefs of gangrene 
well eftablifhed. 
Opium is fuccefsfully ufed in different fpecies of tetanus, and affords 
ef to various fpafmodic and 
ulfive fymptoms 
g 
in 
feveral difeafes, which it would exceed 
limits to defcribe parti 
of thefe we may mention aflhma, epilepfy, dyfpepfia, hyp 
chondriafis, rabies canina, chorea fanc"l;i viti, mania, &c. &c 
o 
* 
See Mead 
Haen Rat, Med, P. 3. />. 94 
pracepta medica, p. 64. Pringle, Dif. of the Army, p 
52 
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