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bruises, that it obtained the appellation of panacea lapsorum‘; and 
by this resolvent power its success in sundry diseases has been ac- 
counted for, particularly pulmonic complaints, suppressio mensium, 
and visceral obstructions. Of the advantages derived from its use 
in paralytic and other affections depending upon an interruption or 
diminution of nervous energy, we have several proofs‘; and it is 
observed in these cases, that the recovery is generally preceded by 
great uneasiness, or acute pain in the parts affected: But it is the 
extraordinary febrifuge and antiseptic virtue of the Arnica, which 
have been so highly extolled by Dr. Collin ®. 
_ It had long been a desideratum of his to find an European plant 
oe ‘equal medicinal powers with the Peruvian bark in fevers of the 
_ intermitting and putrid kind; and after several fruitless trials of dif- 
ferent simples, at last he. had the satisfaction to find them in the 
Arnica; for by the flowers of this plant, made into an electuary* 
with honey, he cured more than one thousand patients labouring 
under the different species of intermittent fevers in the Pazman 
hospital, ‘from December 1771, to July 1774; and during the 
following winter the Doctor made trial of a watery extract of the 
4 Fehrius Eph. N. C. Dec. 1. ann. 9 & 10. Obs. 2. Acta Med. Berolin, Dec. 
1. vol. 1. n. 4. vol. 10. p. 80. Dec. 2. vol. t. p. 66. Buchner, Diss. de genuinis 
principiis et effectibus Arnice. Schulzius, M. M. De La Marche Diss. de Arnice | 
vere usu, Rosenstein. Apot. p. 21. Scopol. Fl, carn. p. 377. 
¢ Fehr; loc. cit. Brickner, in Sel, Med. Francof. vol. 3. p» 190. Act. Berol. 
Dec. 1. vol. 9. p. 24. Quarin, Meth. Med. inflam. p. 80. Ad. Berol. Dec. 1. _ 
vol. 10. p. 82. I, c. Dec. 2. vol. 4. p- 92 & 94. Nebel in Act, nat. cur. vol. 8, 
Obs. 113, Vater, Diss. -de Iétero, 
* Bergius m. m. Junker Therap. gen. p. 173. Eschenbach Obs. p. 353. & 
Dr. Collin, Flor. Arnice Vires, mentions twenty-eight cases ng paralysis, ie? 
nine of amaurosis, Aaskow Societ. Med. Havan. vol, 2. p. 16 
& Hen. Jos. Collin, physician to the Pazman hospital, De arnice in febribus, & 
aliis morbis putridis viribus. ’ 
» R. Pauly. Flor. Arnice drach, ix. mellis q- s. bidui spatio absumendum. 
