LAURUS CAMPHORA. ORD. XL. Oleracee. ; 687 
of controversy ; the experiments of Alexander, who found that his 
pulse was lessened ten vibrations in a minute," sufficiently establish 
its sedative character; and though some instances might show a 
contrary effect, they are such as occasionally occur * from the use 
of medicines universally admitted to be the most powerful of this 
class, and are to be explained as a secondary effect upon the prin- 
ciple of a reaction in the system; and our own experience, as well 
as that of several others noticed below, who have given it success- 
fully in inflammatory complaints, leads us to conclude with Dr. 
Cullen, that inflammation is never the direct operation of this 
substance. : 
« Experimental Essays, p. 227. f 
* Quarin says, “ Vidi enim in multis, quibus camphora majori dost exhiWita 
fuit, pulsum celerrimam, faciem ruberrimam, oculos torvos inflammatos, con- 
vulsiones et phrenitidem Jethalem secutam fuisse.” Method. med, febr. p. 57. 
Respecting the use of this important medicine, in different 
diseases, we shall follow Dr. Cullen,* whose words we shall tran- 
scribe, adding, however, proper notes and references, conformably 
to the plan hitherto pursued in this work. 
* “ Vt has been much employed in fora of all kinds, ‘pasticulacly inseareans 
evers attended with delirium ium and ; 3 and in such Eloxe frtighently 
oneorel it with re. g0, ~T have often seen it employed by my 
fellow-practitioners in such cases: and that the goed efiects of it did not always 
appear, [ imputed it to its being used only in small quantities. Simce we came 
into the free use of wine and opium, Camphire has been little employed in the 
practice of this country. The use of it, however, has been very fully established 
by some of the most eminent physicians on the continent: among these | reckon 
the late learned and experienced Werlhoff,” who often employed it in many infam- 
matory diseases with great benefit, and plainly gives us his opinion in favour of its 
refrigerant power. 
“The use of this medicine has been especially remarkable in putrid fevers,* of 
* Comm, Norimberg. 1734, &7 1735, We may also notice Huxham and Hoffman, |. inf ¢ 
Pringle, Diss. of the Army, f. 310.316, Reverius, Oés. et hist. Cent i, Obs, 24. 1 29. Cont, 2. 
Os. 18. 62. 64. Hoffman, Diss. de usw interno Camphore 1714. p. 20. Huxam, Ofer. T. 2 f- 116. 
Lodwigy aaa Med. Pract, vol. 1. P. i. p62. Collin, Obs circa morb. P. iii. pp. 148. 2gge Even in 
e Pla, Tissot, aise ad Hall. 4.237, Mindererus, Lib. de peste. cap. 15. Jo. Crato, Epist. 
as a ae edit. pp. Hartman in Prac. chymiatr. 364. Schreiber, Ofserv. et cogitata & 
festilentia. f. 58. 2qq. = hen 
