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have not however confined themselves to these:° when this root 
was intended as a diuretic, it has most commonly been used in 
powder, as being in this state less disposed to nauseate the sto- 
mach ; and to the powder it has been the practice to add neutral 
salts, as nitre, or crystals of tartar, especially if the patient com- 
plained of much thirst; others recommend calomel; and with a 
view to render the Squills less offensive to the stomach, it has been 
usual to conjoin an aromatic. The dose of dried Squill is from 
two to four or six grains, once a day, or half this qnantity twice 
a day; afterwards to be regulated according to its effects. The 
dose of the other preparations of this drug, wheii fresh, should be 
four times this weight; for this root loses in the process of drying 
four-fifths of its original weight, and this loss is merely a watery 
exhalation.? 
° See on this subject Wagner, obs. clin. sect. 2. in Hall, collect. diss. Ludwig, 
Advers Medio-pract. vol. ii. p. 695. Quarin, J. c. 
Prelect. in morb. chron. Wome, Clin. Exper. & Hist. p. 357. &c. 
? Duncan, New Edinb. Dispens. p. 322. 
ALLIVUM SATIVUM. COMMON CULTIVATED GARLICK. 
| RA RC AR: A RCN 
SYNONYMA. Allium. Pharm. Lond. & Edinb. Gerard. 
Emac. p.177. Park. Theat. p.513. Rati Hist, p.1125, Allium 
sativum. Bauh. Pin. p.73. J. Bauh. Hist. ti. p. 554. Allium. ' 
staminibus alterne trifidis, foliis gramineis, capite bulbifero, radi- 
cibus in unum bulbum congruentibus. * Hall, Opusc. p 331. 
Leogodes Grec. 
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