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generally acts as a powerful evacuant, muft have 

 been the caufe of many lives being facrifked to 

 pecuniary intereft. Such a remedy, however fuited 

 to diforders where a quick and powerful evacuation 

 is required, is utterly improper in cafes where the 

 powers of life are much reduced, and where the ut- 

 moft attention to fupport the ftrength of the patient 

 is neceiTary. This is always the indication in fevers 

 of the low, nervous, and contagious kind, and is 

 frequently the cafe in the advanced (late of fevers 

 in general, whatever might be their tendency at 

 their firft appearance. Even in the rheumatifm, 

 which is of an inflammatory nature, though often 

 chronical in point of its duration, this medicine, 

 though often ferviceable at the beginning, muft not 

 be continued very long, as it is found, like the other 

 antimonial preparations, to injure by long ufe the 

 tone of the ftomach and powers of digeftion. 



The high, and as it might juflly be called extra- 

 vagant price of this remedy, which bore fcarcely 

 any affignable proportion to its intrinfic value, has 

 caufed its ufe to be lefs general among the poor 

 than humanity would defire. That objection is 

 now, however, fuperfeded; the powder being now 

 fold at Apothecaries-hall, for lefs than one twentieth 

 part of its former price $ and this powder is found, 

 on the mod impartial examination, to be fully equal 



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