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diflblved chalk-ftones, nodes, tophi, and 

 cured exoftofes. Unfortunately however it 

 happens, that experiments made upon the 

 napellus in this country, do not confirm all 

 that has been faid of it by Dr. Storck. I 

 evaporated the juice expreffed from the 

 leaves and ftalks of blue monkfliood to the 

 confiftence of an extradl. I tried it with 

 two patients wiio had the chronic rheuma- 

 tifm, and it was adminiftered in the dofes 

 recommended by Dr. Storck. After having 

 given it (what I thought) a fair trial, and 

 finding it do neither good or harm, I threw it 

 afide for the ufe of more efficacious remedies. 



The napellus is faid by authors not to be 

 poifonous in Sweden and fome other coun- 

 tries. In the Ephemer. Medic. Fhyf. Curiof. 

 An. II. Obf. 42. p. 79. is a treatife under 

 the following title : D. Martini Barnardi a 

 Bernz. Napellus in Polonia non venenofus, 

 wherein fome inftances are given to prove 

 that the napellus mentioned by Linnaeus is 

 not poifonous in Poland. 



It muft be obferved, however, that the 

 kind of napellus mentioned by Linnaeus not 



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