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iPECACUANHA. ORD. IX. Stellate. 813° 
Ipecacuan, particularly in the state of powder, is, now adyan- 
tageously employed in almost every disease in which vomiting is 
indicated; and when combined with opium, under the form of 
pulvis sudorificus, it furnishes us with the most useful and active 
sweating medicine which we possess. It is also given with ad- 
vantage in very small doses even when it produces no sensible 
operation. The full dose of Ipecacuan in substance is a scruple, 
though less doses will frequently produce an equal effect. The 
officinal preparation is vinum ipecacuanhe. : 
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