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ARNICA MONTANA. 
retic, narcotic and diuretic ; in larger doses emetic and cathartic : 
the root is said to be aromatic and tonic. That the Arnica is a 
medicine of considerable activity, (especially in paralysis) there 
cannot be a doubt, but how far it deserves the extravagant praises 
it has received at Vienna, future experiments must determine. Dr. 
Collin, physician to the Pazman Hospital, states, that with the 
flowers of this plant, made into an electuary with honey, he cured 
more than one thousand patients labouring under different species 
of intAmittent fevers* in that hospital, from December 1771 to 
July 1774; and during the following winter, he made trial of a 
watery extract of the flowers, by which he cured thirty quotidians, 
forty-six tertians, and fifty-eight quartans. Dr. Collin also slates, 
that he experienced equal success with the flowers (employed in the 
form of infusion) in many hundred cases of putrid fevers. In some 
cases, he recommends the roott in preference to the flowers, be- 
lieving the former to possess more cordial, tonic, and antiseptic 
qualities. Dr. Collin also found the root of Arnica of great 
efficacy in malignant dysentery, and its good effects in this disease is 
confirmed by Dr. Diell, physician to the Military Hospital at 
Vienna. Dr. Collin farther ascertained the medicinal power which 
he attributes to this root, in thirteen cases of gangrenes, where its 
antiseptic eflfects admitted of more evident proof. As the Arnica, 
when first administered, often excites vomiting or uneasiness of the 
stomach, it will be necessary to begin with small doses, but by re- 
peating the medicine two or three times, this uneasiness goes off. 
The leaves and flowers have also been recommended in suppression 
of the menses, visceral obstructions, and pulmonic complaints, gout, 
rheumatism, convulsive diseases, and dysentery ; but in this latter 
disease it often proves injurious, from its stimulant properties. But 
its good effects are more particularly evident in paralytic affections, 
in which diseases, we have many proofs of its eflicacy 4 and it is 
* We are told hy Bergius, that he found it aggravate rather than remove inter- 
mittents. 
-|- R. Pulv. Rad. Arnicse unc. ij. digere in phiala alta balneo arenae adaptata, exacte 
clausa, per 12 horas cum aq. q. s. colatur unc. xxx. adde syr. alth. unc. iij. M. Sumat 
seger omni bihorio unc. ij. vel iij. And to make this medicine more palatable, he 
occasionally added lemon juice, wine or spirits of vitriol. 
t Buchner, Diss, de genuinis principiis et effectibus Arnicae. Schulzius Mat. Med. 
de la Marcbe diss, de Arnica; verae usu. 
