750 ORD. XLIV. Piperite. ARUM MACULATUM, 
much commended, both as an external and as an internal remedy, 
and is said that “ Ratione particularum tenuium & volatilium 
mucum viscidum & spissum ventriculi & intestinorum parietibus 
adhzrentem potenter incidit, attenuat, atque resolvit;” and was 
prescribed in all that numerous class of diseases formerly supposed 
_.@ to proceed a succorum lentore. Bergius considers it useful in 
Colluvies pituitosa, Anorexia, Cephalea sympatica,“ Asthma hu- 
morale, Cachexia, Febris intermittens. Arum is certainly a very 
powerful stimulant, and by promoting the secretions may be 
advantageously employed in cachectic and chlorotic cases, in 
rheumatic affections, and in various other complaints of phlegmatic 
and torpid constitutions; but more especially in a weakened or 
relaxed state of the stomach, occasioned by the prevalence of 
viscid mucus. If this root is given in powder, great care should 
be taken that it be young and newly dried, when it may be used 
in the dose of a scruple or more twice a day: but in rheumatisms ° 
and other disorders requiring the full effects of this medicine, the 
root should be given in a recent state, and to cover the insupport- 
able pungency it discovers on the tongue, Dr. Lewis advises us 
to administer it in the form of emulsion, with gum arabic ard 
spermaceti, increasing the dose from ten grains to upwards of a 
scruple three or four times a day; in this way’ “ it generally 
oceasioned a sensation of slight warmth about the stomach, and 
afterwards in the remoter parts manifestly promoted perspiration, 
and frequently produced a plentiful sweat. Several obstinate 
rheumatic pains were removed by this —— which is therefore 
recommended to further trial.” 
¢ Bergius speaks highly of the efficacy of Arum in these headachs, which were 
of the most violent kind, and resisted all the means he employed, till he used the 
powder of this root, which never failed to relieve them, 
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