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tongue, occafioned a flight titillation. He 

 infinuated a grain of the extradt between his 

 eye-lids, without obferving the efFedls of any 

 preternatural irritation. He afterwards pre- 

 pared the following powder : 

 R Extradt. Napel. caerul. gr. ii. 



Sach, puris. 5 ii. M. & contrite in 

 mortario marmoreo. 



The Doftor took ten grains of this pow- 

 der without any apparent operation. He 

 then fwallowed twenty grains. Throughout 

 the whole day, a very profufe perfpiration 

 was the confequence. Hence he inferred, 

 that as the extradt of monkfhood increafed 

 fo very remarkably the cuticular difcharge, 

 it was adapted to difeafes in which the mor- 

 bid matter might be expelled by the fudori- 

 ferous pores. 



Dr. Storck and Dr. Colin, we are inform- 

 ed, adminiftered the extradt of monkfhood to 

 fourteen different patients in the hofpital at 

 Vienna, v^ith aftonifhing fuccefs. It relieved 

 in a fhort time the violent pains of the gout 

 and chronic rheumatifm, by occafioning a 

 plentiful diaphorefis; it foftened and even 



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