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the bladder; amaurosis; intermittent, putrid, and typhoid 
fevers, and, according to Haller, in epilepsy; it was also used 
much in France, at the end of the last century, in colliquative 
diarrhea. . 
Althoff preferred Arnica to Peruvian bark, as an antiseptic 
to putrid fevers; and Stohl called it the Quinine of the poor, and 
declared it to be specific in dysentery. 
Arnica was supposed to be contra-indicated by an inflamma- 
tory diathesis, a predisposition to hemorrhages, and internal 
congestions. 
Besides Collin, as mentioned above, Stohl, Kausch, Crichton, 
and Gilbert advocated its use in mucous, adynamic, putrid, 
and petechial fevers. Miieller, Buechner, and La Marche, in 
peripneumonia, nephritis, rheumatism, and gout. Junker, 
Eschenbach, and Collin, in hemiplegia, epilepsy, and amau- 
rosis.* It became what is termed a fashionable remedy about 
the latter part of the last century and commencement of the 
present one; but from its great abuse, or rather indiscriminate 
use, fell into disrepute, although, had it been discreetly admi- 
nistered in diseases for which it was appropriate, it would have 
become then, as it has now in homeopathic medicine, an invalu- 
able remedy in many serious diseases. 
Descrirtion.—Arnica montana is a perennial plant; flowers 
July and August. The root is woody, with numerous small 
* The following are the chief essays which were written at that time on the 
virtues of the Arnica montana,—La Marche (George Auguste de), De Arnice 
vere Usu. Diss. inaug Pres., 4to, Hale, 1719; id.1744. Meisner (L, F.), Panacea 
lapsorum seu Arnica, 4to, Prage, 1736. Buechner (André E.), De genuinis 
principiis et effectibus Arnicw, 4to, Erfordie, 1741; id. Lipsie, 1749. Collin 
(Henry Joseph), Florum Arnice vires, etc., 8v0, Vienne, 1773. Arnice in Febribus 
et aliis morbis putridis vires, 8vo, Vienne, 1775. These observations fill about 800 
pages. Schuelt (P. A.), De Viribus Arnice, 4to, Gottinge, 1774. Déellinger 
(J. J.), Dissertatio inaugural. Observ. cirea Arnica, 4to, Bamberg, 1776. Fried 
(Ignace), De Viribus et Usu Arnice, 8vo, Vienne, 1780. Birhholz (A. M.), De 
Arnice virtute proprid atque specificd, 4to, Lipsie, 1785. Buchholz (G. H.8.), 
Versuche uéber die antiseptischen kroéfte des Wolferley, 4to, Erford, 1785. 
