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“opinion that the preparation in extract, as prescribed in the 
““Wirtenberg dispensatory, is upon a good foundation, and may 
“ be employed in pectoral cases with more advantage and.safety 
“than the ingle infusion or decoction made by @ short ec 
** only. 
“ When we were restrained in employing the infusion of tobacco 
*< as a diuretic, as mentioned, we expected to succeed better with 
* the decoction; and I have found, that by long boiling this might 
«be given in much larger doses than the infusion: but we still 
“ found it retaining so much of the emetic quality, that we could 
“not employ it as a diuretic without being interrupted in its use 
* by the same emetic quality that had fnterritel the use of the 
* infusion. 
‘« Besides, the interna] uses of FOBSECO hah baka I must now 
© remark, thatit has : virtues as 
“externally employed. I have know? the infusion employed with 
“advantage as a lotion for some obstinate ulcers: but the many in- 
“stances of its being absorbed, and_ proving thereby a violent 
‘ poison, dissuade from such a practice; especially as there are 
“‘ other medicines, of as much efficacy, that may be employed with 
“ much more safety. Bergius recommends it to be employed as a 
« fomentation in the bain hieabiiee but we have had no opportu- 
* nity of employing ics 
* The preceding quotation has completely anticipated what we have to offer upon 
the subject of Tobacco. Respecting its poisonous or narcotic effects we shall sub- 
join the following references: —Ephem. Nat. Cur. Dec. 2, Ann. 10. Obs. 131. p. 222. 
we are told, that by the immoderate use of snuff, somnolency, and at length fatal 
apoplexy, was induced. Hellwig Obs. Phys. Med. p. 45. gives two instances of the 
same kind, occasioned by smoaking 17 or 18-pipes of Tobaceo. For the effects of 
Tobacco, by absorption from its external use, see Eph. cit. Ann. 4. p. 46. et Ann. 2. 
Obs. 108. p. 262. Alston’s M. M. vol. ii. p. 190. The oil of Tobacco applied to a 
wound, is said by Redi'to be as fatal as the poison of a viper. See Experim. Nat. 
p- 8. 50. 315. Albinus however did not find that this was the case with the different 
animals on which he tried the experiment. Diss. de Tobac. p. 11, This oil, given 
to pigeons, produced fatal effects, and was constantly attended with vomiting, Abdé 
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