TOBACCO. 185 _- 
concludes it is a safe and efficacious diuretic. In 
thirty one dropsical cases in which he employed 
it, eighteen were cured and ten relieved ; and out 
of eighteen cases of dysury, ten were cured and 
seven relieved. Dr. Ferriar and. several subse- 
quent: practitioners have found it a valuable diu- 
retic, although Cullen does not speak very en- 
couragingly of its use. At the present day it 
does not seem to be extensively in use, having 
passed into neglect rather because more fashiona- 
ble remedies have superceded it, than because it 
has really been weighed and found wanting. It 
will always deserve trial in obstinate dropsical 
cases (and such eases it must be confessed are not 
rare) in which the more common remedies have 
been tried without benefit. Of the various for- 
mulas recommended by Dr. Fowler, the Wine of 
“Tobacco is the only one preserved in the Edin- 
burgh and Massachusetts pharmacopeeias, being 
the one which is believed to extract most fully 
the virtues of the Tobacco. It is made by di- 
gesting for a week, an ounce of the dried Tobac- 
co in a pound of Spanish white wine. ‘The dose 
is from thirty to eighty drops. Dr. Fowler him- 
self however believed the most effectual mode of 
administering the Tobacco, was in the form of 
pills of a grain each. (i heqaacint 
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