720 ORD. XLII. Veprecule. DAPHNE MEZEREUM. 
that Dr. R. never found the decoction to increase any of the 
natural evacuations. Dr, Cullen observes, that “ Dr. Home has 
not only found this decoction to cure scirrhous tumours, which 
remain after the Iues venerea, and after the use of mercury, but 
that it healed also some scirrhous tumours from other causes; and 
that he has employed it in several cutaneous affections, and some- 
times with success. ’” 
The considerable and long continued heat and irritation that is 
produced in the throat when Mezereon is chewed, induced Dr. 
Withering to think of giving it in a case of difficulty of swallowing, 
seemingly occasioned by a paralytic affection. The patient was 
directed to chew a thin slice of the root as often as she could bear 
it, and in about a month recovered her power of swallowing. This 
woman had suffered the complaint three years, and was greatly 
reduced, being totally unable to swallow solids, and liquids but 
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