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CONIUM MACULATUM: ORD. VI.. Umbellate.. 109° 
injustice." Although we have not in this country any direct facts, 
like those mentioned by Stéerck, proving that inveterate scirrhuses, 
cancets, ufters, and many other diseases hitherto deemed irremedi- 
able, were completely cured by the Cicuta; we have, however, the 
testimonies of several eminent physicians, shewing that some 
complaints, which had resisted other powerful medicines, yielded’ 
to Hemlock;* and that even some disorders, which, if not really 
cancerous, were at least suspected to be of that tendency, were 
greatly benefited by this remedy... In chronic rheumatisms, some 
glandular swellings, and in) various fixed and periodical pains, the 
cicuta.is now very generally employed ; and from daily experience, 
it appears in such cases.to be a very efficacious remedy. It has 
also been found of singular use in the chincough.’ We cannot: 
therefore but consider this plant an important acquisition to the. 
Materia Medica. Externally the leaves. of hemlock have been. 
variously applied with advantage to ulcers, indurated tumours, and. 
gangrenes, 
Much has been said Fempéctiang: the ail nature of this plant,. 
the time of collecting it, the part which ought to be preferred, and: 
the best manner of preparing it for medical use; but as these’ 
circumstances seem only to produce a mere variation in the strength: 
of the masligine, we conceive such hipharmaseuieal 2 PES to be: 
Vide Andree’s. Disorsatiods: on Staerck’s Pamphlet, anno +761._ en: 
Diss. dubia Cicute vexata. anno 1764, De Haen Epist..de cicuta, anno 1765-- 
Bierken (Tal om Kreaftskador) who, with egies says, that in all cancers: it« 
does mischief. . 
* Among those we may mention the late Drs. Fothergil and Rutty. Vide Med. . 
Obs. & Inquir. vol. 3.—also in the 5th vol. the former gives an account of painful 
affections of the face, which he attributes to cancerous acrimony, removed by the 
use of cicuta—Dr. Cullen says, ‘‘ 1 have found it in several cases (of cancer) te 
relieve the pains and mend the quality of the matter proceeding from the sore, and : 
even-to make a considerable approach towards healing it.” Mat. Med. vol. 2. 
266. Several others imstance its good effects in glandular diseases, and Mr. 
Hunter commends its use in syphilis. ° Dr. Butter on the Chincough.. 
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