685 ; ORD, XL. Oleracec, LAURUS. CAMPHORA, 
which indeed we have not many instances in this country: but from the very 
remarkable antiseptic powers which it discovers in experiments out of the body,* 
it is very probable that when thrown into the body in large quantities, so that at 
least its more subtile parts may be diffused over the whole system, it may be ex- 
pected to produce considerable antiseptic effects. Its power in resisting and 
curing gangrene in the experiments of Collin,” are very remarkable; but whether 
that power be owing to its antiseptic virtue alone, or to its operation at the same 
time on the nervous system, I would not rashly determine. 
Both from its use in low, or what are called malignant fevers, and from its 
antiseptic powers, it is highly probable that it has been of great service in the 
confluent small-pox.* It is also likely that it may be of service in favouring the 
eruption of exanthemata, and of bringing them back to the skin, when from any 
cause they had suddenly receded, though I have no particular experience of this. , 
*¢ These are the cases of acne diseases in which Camphire has been useful; and 
its use in many cron nic Whenever dis diseases 
depend upon a of the | nervous power, thd an irregularity of i vee me: motions, 
it may be expected oat such a powerful sedative should be of service. According. 
‘Jy, many practitioners have reported its virtues in hysteric and hypochondriac 
cases; and I myself have had frequent experience of it. 
ot aie and convulsive affections it has also been of service; and even 
in epiley it has been useful. I have not indeed known an epilepsy entirely cured 
by ~ Camphire alone; but I have had several instances of a paroxysm which was 
expected in the course of a night, prevented by a dose of Camphire exhibited at 
bed-time ; and even this when the Camphire was given alone: but it has been 
especially useful when given with a dose of cuprum ammoniacum, of white vitriol, 
or of the flowers of zinc. 
® $¢ Since the report of Dr. Kinnier, in the Philosophical Transactions, vol. XXXV. 
Camphire has. been often employed in cases of mania; and I have given above an 
account of a trial which I had made of it.. In that case, however, it was not 
successful; nor in several other trials has it esa more so with cage or other 
EEE this country. i 
. “Pringle, 1 c. app. p. 12. 
Re a es See also Pouteau slidiiie-a Cie tv: 
“ Haller, es path. p. 145, Tissot, Epist. cect Pradk f. 237 COL. Hoffmanns Nachricht von & 
gut. Heilart d. Kinderblatterm 764, in Fogel Bib. vol. 5. p. 340. Collin, 4. c. P. 3. cas. 22, 23,.94. 
in the Small-pox Hospital, Camphor is in “general usé, and our own experience warrants us in 
saying, that in the early stages of this disease, and after proper evacuations have been effected, 
it seldom fails, in doses of a scruple, to relieve the pains of the head and loins, and to procure rest. 
But we have no reason to think with Resenstein and Boerhaave, that the activity of the variolous 
miasmata is to be subdued by this medicine 
# Hoffman, 7. «. f- 22.~ Home; Clinical, Exp. . 193, raat Obs, Pract. pr. 42, coe Bd 
Asthma, (Fc. x 104. Collin, 2 ¢. cas, 8, and others 
