2 ~ ORD. IN. Composite. ARNICA MONTANA: 
ewer: by which he cured thirty quotidians ad dyes tertians, and 
fifty-eight quartans.* 
In putrid fevers the Doctor ‘experienced equal success with: the 
flowers employed in the way of infusion’, with which many hundreds 
of patients were snatched from the very jaws of death. “ However, 
there are some cases where the Doctor recommends the root‘ in 
preference to. the flowers, believing the former to possess more 
cordial, tonic, and antiseptic qualities; and it is accordingly directed 
in those cases where putridity and debility are more prevalent than 
fever; also in a malignant dysentery Dr. Collin could relate many 
hundred instances of the superior efficacy of Arnica root, and his 
practice in this disease was imitated and confirmed by Dr. Dietl'> 
Dr. Collm farther ascertains the medicinal powers which he at- 
tributes to this root in thirteen cases of gangrenes, where its anti- 
septic effects admitted of more evident proof. As the Arnica, when 
first administered, often excites vomiting, Orwneéasiness-at—the sto- 
mach, it will be necessary to begin with small doses; but by repeat- 
ing the medigine two or three times, this uneasiness Lae off. 
* Dr. Collin is, we believe, the only author who has experienced the good 
effests of Arnica in imtermitting fevers, if we except the two cases stated by 
Aaskow (1. c.) where it acted as a powerful evacuant. Bergius employed it in 
quartan intermittents, which were aggravated, rather than bettered, by the use 
of this medicine, m. m. 
i R. Flor. arnice unc. j. infunde in s. q. aque fervide per I horam, deinde vase 
clauso per medium 1 hore ebulliant; colat. lib, ij. add. syr. capill. vener. q. s. ad 
gratiam ; et omni bihorio diei sumat une. ij. 
* R. Pulv. Rad. Arnice unc. ij. digere in phiala alta balneo arena adaptata, 
exacte clausa, per 12 horas cum ag. gq. s. colatur unc. xxx. adde syr. alth. une. iij, 
m, Sumat eger omni bihorio unc. ij. vel iij. And to make this medicine more 
palatable to the patient, he occasionally added lemon juice, spt. vitriol, or wines 
» +.) Physician to the military hospital of invalids, at Vienna, 
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