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experiment a deviation from Dr. W. Philip's method which 

 might have affected the result ; but observes that he has again 

 repeated it without success, and moreover, that in this second 

 repetition the state of the stomach was not quite the same as 

 in the first, but corresponded with that related at p. 232 of Dr. 

 W. Philip's " Inquiry," in which the stomach was exposed only 

 to a slight degree of galvanic influence. 



11. Neiv Febrifuge. — A new febrifuge has been introduced 

 into Spain, which promises to be of much value in the Materia 

 Medica. It is the root of a plant known to the Indians of Quito 

 under the name of Chinininha, and named by Dr. Joseph Pavor, 

 who considers it a new genus, Unamica Febrifuga. Dr. Joseph 

 Pavor presented this plant to the Royal Academy of Medicine 

 at Madrid, and several eminent men in medical science were 

 appointed to try its virtues and its applications. Their results 

 are entirely in favour of this new medicine, and have been con- 

 firmed by the experience of many others. The powdered root 

 is employed in doses of a scruple up to half a drachm every 

 three hours, and thus in a short time fevers have disappeared, 

 and the recurrence of those which intermit prevented, though 

 they had for months resisted the action of cinchona and other 

 remedies. The powder has been distributed to the various 

 medical schools, of Madrid ; and in every successive trial has 

 jireserved the good character it first obtained. 



12. Remedij for the Plague. — The use of olive oil has lately 

 been recommended as a very effectual remedy for the plague. 

 It was strongly praised some years ago by Mr. Baldwin an 

 English consul in the East ; and in the month of June, last year, 

 Mr. Graberg writes from Tangiers, that by drinking from four to 

 eight oz. of it a number of patients have been saved from death. 

 The remedy acts generally as a sudorific, an abundant sweat 

 breaks out all over the body ; it sometimes proves vomitive and 

 purgative, but the sweating is most salutary. Its use has been 

 recommended for trial in disorders allied to the plague. 



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