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‘in Europe, (owing to Dr. Chrestein’s publication in 1811,)_ 
and within fourteen years in this country, it was esteemed 
_ anti-syphilitic : cases of syphilis are reported to have been 
eek. in the New-York Hospital, by this remedy. Dr. 
I. C. Niel, a French physician, says, the aurific prepara- 
tions are efficacious in scald-head, elephantiasis, and scro- 
fula : he says, they sometimes salivate. Drs. Hosack and 
Francis observed secondary symptoms to occur, in the 
oases of cure of syphilis, made in the New-York Hospita 
by muriate of gold. On the whole view of what has bee: 
said in favour of gold, I am not inclined to attach great 
. importance to it as a remedy. It is well enough, in its 
proper place, and for its proper oses, for which it is 
much more useful than as a medicine. Plenty of it would 
doubtless cure many diseases of mind and body! — 
Preparations used are—1. Metallic. in minate divi- 
sion. 2. The oxyde, precipitated - - ae he 
oxyde, precipitated by tin. 4. The triple muriate of gold — 
and soda. The muriates the most active. Dose, everso | 
little—few patients can afford to pay for much ; and it is, 
questionless, ill suited to poor practice, 
Gold-leaf was formerly used to cover pills, that their 
nauseous taste and odour might not be perceived. Pills, 
thus sheathed, may be rendered insoluble, and pass off by 
stool—now entirely disused; and the “ gilded pull” is only 
met with in the song of the poet. 
No. 100.—Avena Sativa. Common oat. 
Orricinat. Avena farina. Oat-meal. Phar. U. S. y ie 
Semina. Lond. Edin. The seeds of the oat called grits, 
Cabinet specimen, Jeff. CoH. No. 123. : 
I prefer the U. S. officinal term, it being the only pro 
one to designate the article used as a restorative Fai 
In this country, we never use grits, which term is applied 
to the oat freed from its epidermis. I discard the view of . 
this article as a medicine, and class it in section (F) of this 
course. Asa nutritive substance, it is perhaps ited. 
It is liable to produce acidity, and distressing colics, with 
tying-in women, when made a constant diet : wine added 
to it only increases its acescency; and I think, when wine 
can be proper for parturient women, they had much better 
discard oat-meal gruel, and eat animal soups. I have, 
however, known many who could bear it, and w fat 
upon it—still, I deem it, in general, a less fit diet for such, 
than some of the amylaceous fecule. Immemorial usage, 
however, has given it a place in the parturient chamber, 
and there it sticks as long as the nurse does. As I have 
scarcely been able to drive it out of my own house, so ¥ 
despair, by these remarks, to send it from the sick cham- 
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