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smaller doses ; he refused to agree as to its specific virtues in 

 diarrhoeas and dysenteries, and attributed its salutary virtues 

 to the vomiting it occasioned. These ideas were followed by 

 Geoffrey, Trew, and Gianella, who employed very small doses 

 of it in intermittent fevers. Nicolas Dalberg had recourse to 

 still smaller doses in hemorrhages and affections of the chest ; 

 and in England, Dover combined Ipecacuanha and Opium, and 

 obtained in this manner an excellent antispasmodic, which 

 favoured at the same time perspiration from the skin. Eichard 

 Brocklesby, in 1760, was the first to praise this remedy, which 

 became afterwards so celebrated. Mark Akenside attributed to 

 Ipecacuanha a tranquillizing virtue, and recommends the root 

 in convulsive asthma ; and Thomas Reed in phthisis (Sprengel, 

 Hist, de la Med., t. v.) 



Dr. Pye, 1786 (Med. Obs. and Inq. s vol. i. p. 290), says 

 of Ipecacuanha : « A medicine which has so justly gained the 

 reputation not only of the mildest and safest, but almost a 

 specific remedy for many disorders of the stomach and bowels ; 

 as efficacious to root out every offending humour as the most 

 humane physician could devise ; nay, of so great use, that hardly 

 any disease, which takes its origin from the stomach, can be 

 cured without it." As a medicine it was, as mentioned above, 

 first used in dysentery; afterwards it became a Very general 

 remedy in various diseases. In full doses, as an emetic ; in 

 smaller doses, as a nauseant, antispasmodic, diaphoretic, and 

 expectorant. In affections of the respiratory organs. In 

 mucous catarrh. Bronchial hemorrhage. Hemorrhages from 

 the lungs, etc. Croup, and other catarrhal affections. Asthma. 

 In affectxons of the alimentary canal. Indigestion. Dysentery. 

 IWhcea of different kinds. In various other diseases. In 

 hysterical and hypochondriacal spasms. Epilepsy. Catarrhal 

 and rheumatic affections. Rheumatic fever. Intermittent 



lever. Palpitation of the h^avt To,o, : ci ^ 



r «« ui me neait. Ischuria. Strancury. I)v- 



suna, etc. ° J J 



D ES CK 1 P T ,oK._The Cephas Ipecacuanha i, a perennial 



