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convulsive complaints,’ but the diseases in which its efficacy seems 
least equivocal, are those of the skin,‘ as scabies and different 
prurient eruptions, herpes, morbus pediculosus, lepra, scrophula, 
&c, and in many of these it has been pecceeenly employed both 
internally and externally. 
As a powerful stimulant, and irritating medicine, its use has been 
resorted to only in desperate cases, and then it is first to be tried 
in very small doses, in a diluted state, and to be -ptmeses in- 
creased, according to the effects. 
® Greding, 7. c. See also Smyth in Medical Communications, vol. i. p. 207. 
4 Its success in these complaints is mentioned’ both by the ancient and modern 
writers. Smyth relates three cases. Seed. c. 
The Veratrum nigrum of Lin. or Helleborus albus flore atro-rubente of C. Bauh.. 
is said to produce the same effects as the Veratrum album. See Lorry, de melanch. 
tom. it. p. 289. & Linneus, Amoen. Acad. vol. ix. p. 261. Helleborus is supposed 
to be derived 270 re 2Asw Popa quod esu perimat. Vératrum dicitur quod mentem 
vertat, or, a verare i. e. vera loqui. V.C. Raul’. 1. c- 
COLCHICUM AUTUMNALE. COMMON MEADOW SAFFRON. 
Seen RA mS Ge Ni ANAND EAR A ah 
SYNONYMA,. Colchicum. Pharm. Lond. & Edinb. Colchi-- 
cum commune. Bauh. Pin. p. 67. Raii Hist. p.1170. Synop. 
p. 373. Colchicum purpureum & Anglicum album. Gerard. 
Emac. p. 157. Park. Parad. p. 153. Colchicum Flore folium 
longe precedente, petalis ovatis. Hall. Stirp. Helo. n. 1255. 
C. autumnale. Hudson. Fl. Ang. p. 136. Ed. 1762. Light. Fi. 
Scot. p. 192. Withering Bot. Arr. p. 379.  Stoerck Lib. de 
~ Colch. autumn. 
Class Hexandria. Ord. Trigynia. Lin. Gen. Plant. 457. 
Ess. Gen. Ch. Cor. 6-partita: tubo radicato. Capsule connexe 
inflate. 
Sp. Ch, C. foliis planis lanceolatis erectis. 
« Flore simplici. ¢ Flore pleno,. 
