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sickness, vomiting, fever, and delirium. When this happens, or 
when an over large dose has been given, the stomach must be 
washed with warm water: the patient must speedily be purged 
with Castor-oil, and use plenty of lime~juice beverage for common 
drink; vegetable acid being a powerful SIEONE 4 in this case, as 
well as in an over dose of opium. | 
“ The decoction is what is mostly given here, and seldom fails 
to perform every thing that can be expected from an anthelmintic 
medicine, by destroying worms in the intestines, and bringing 
them away in great quantities. By frequent use, however, these 
animals become familiarized, and we find it necessary to intermit 
it, or have recourse to others of inferior merit. 
“* The writers of the Edinburgh Medical Commentaries take 
notice, that the decoction of cabbage-bark always excites vomiting. 
We find no such effect from it here, and may account for it by 
their receiving it in a mouldy state. A syrup, therefore, is given 
there with better effect. They observe also that it has a diuretic 
virtue, which we have not taken notice of here. 
This bark purges pretty briskly, especially in powder, thirty 
or forty grains working as well as jallap by stool; but in this = 
it does not seem to kill worms so well as in decoction. 
« Five grains of the extract made a strong man sick, and. purged 
him several times; but, by frequent use, ‘he took ten grains to 
produce at length the same effect. 
« Jt must not be concealéd that fatal accidents have happened 
from the imprudent administration of this bark, chiefly from over- 
dosing the medicine. But this cannot detract from the merit of 
the cabbage-bark, since the best medicines, when abused, become 
deleterious; and éven our best aliments, in too great quantity, 
prove destructive. Upon the whole, the cabbage-bark is a most 
valuable remedy, and I hope will become an addition to the 
Materia Medica.” 
