242 ORD. XII. Solanacee, seu Luride. soLaANUM DULCAMARS 
with that of Murray: “ Virtus: pellens urinam, sudorem, menses, 
Jochia, sputa; mundificans.’’ The diseases in which we find it re- 
commended by different authors are extremely various ;' but Bergius 
confines its use to “ rheumatismus, retentio, mensium & lochiorum.” 
Dulcamara appears also, by the experiments of Razoux and others, 
to have been used with advantage in some obstinate cutaneous affec- 
tions.* Dr. Cullen says, ‘ We have employed only the stipites or 
* slender twigs of this shrub; but as we have collected them they 
come out very unequal, some parcels of them being very mild 
and inert, and others of them considerably acrid. In the latter 
state we have employed a decoction of them in the cure of rheu- 
matism, sometimes with advantage, but at other times without 
“any effect. Though the Dulcamara is here inserted in the cata- 
logue of diuretics, it has never appeared to us as powerful in this 
«* way; for in all the trials made here, it has hardly ever been ob- 
served to be in any measure diuretic."”” This plant is generally 
given in decoction or infusion, and to prevent its exciting nausea, 
it is ordered to be diluted with milk, and to begin with small doses, 
as large doses have been found to produce very dangerous symp- 
toms.' Razoux directs the following: & Stipitum Dulcam. rec. drac. 
ss. in aque font. unc. 16 coquatur ad unc. 8. This was taken in 
the dose of three or four drams, ‘diluted with an equal quantity of 
milk every four hours.* 
© Mat. Med. 131. 
f See the instances adduced by Haller and Murray. 1. c. Of the chief of these we 
may mention Phthisis, Lues venerea, Peripneumonia notha, Scorbutus, Icterus, 
Asthma, &c. on the authority of Boerhaave, Sauvages, Sager, and others 
s Journ. de Medecine. t. 22. p. 236, 
Mat. Med. ii. 354. 
* Vide Linneus Diss. de Dulcamara, p. 9. Haen. rat. med. Tom. iv. p. 247. 
“ Largier Dulcamarz usus initio et antequam ventriculus illi assueverit, nauseam et 
Yomitum excitat, quin convulsiones et deliria, et notante cl. Govan, protractus para- 
lysin linguw.” Vide Murray 1. c. 
* Linneus directs two drams or half an ounce of the dried stipites, to be infused 
half an hour in boiling water, and then to be boiled ten minutes; and of this decoc. 
tion he gave two tea-cups full morning and evening. 1. c. 
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