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SCILLA MARITIMA. ORD. XLVI. Liliacee. TAT 
gangrene of the stomach and bowels." But as many of the more 
active articles of the Materia Medica, by injudicious adminis- 
tration, become equally deleterious, these effects of the Scilla do 
not derogate from its medicinal virtues; on the contrary, we feel 
ourselves fully warranted in representing this drug, under proper 
management, and in certain cases and constitutions, to be a medi- 
cine of great practical utility,-and real importance in the cure of 
many obstinate-diseases. Its effects, as stated by Bergius, are 
ineidens diuretica, emetica, subpurgans, hydragoga, expectorans, , 
emmenagoga.' In hydropical cases it has Jong been esteemed the 
most certain and effectual diuretic with which we are acquainted ; 
and in asthmatic affections,* or dyspnoea, occasioned by the lodg- 
ment of tenacious phlegm, it has been the expectorant usually 
employed.’ The Squill, especially in large doses, is apt to 
stimulate the stomach, and to prove emetic; and it sometimes acts 
upon the intestines, and becomes purgative; but when these 
operations take, place, the medicine is prevented from, reaching 
the blood vessels and kidneys, and the patient is deprived of its 
diuretic effects; which are to be obtained by giving the Squill in 
smaller doses, repeated at more distant. intervals,” or by the joining 
of an opiate to this medicine, which was found by Dr, Cullen to 
answer the same purpose. The Dr. further observes, that from 
a continued repetition of the Squill, the dose may be gradually 
increased, and the intervals of its exhibition shortened; and when 
in this way the doses come to be tolerably Jarge, the opiate may be 
most conveniently employed to direct the operation of the Squill 
more certainly to the kidneys. “ In cases of dropsy ; that is, when 
» See Lange, de remed. Bruns. domest. p. 176. Also Quarin, Animado. pract. 
166 
e a Fae 2 
*_ All the authors who have written on these diseases, might here be cited. 
1 We do. not notice its use as an emetic, as we think it entirely superseded by 
the ipecacuanha, 
= This is mentioned on 1 the authority of Dr, Cullen, Af. M. v. ii. p- 558. 
