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Difeafes arifing from black Choler. However, its 
Roughnefs obliged them to be very cautious how they 
ufed it ; the Patient being always prepared for feven 
Days, before they ventured to give it, by gentle 
Phyfick and a proper Regimen. They like wife tried 
feveral Ways to corredt it. Hippocrates , on the Diet 
in a cute Difeafes , orders it to be mixed with Cum- 
min, Anife, and other warm and fragrant Subftances; 
and Pliny mentions a Method of boiling it in Ra- 
dices, and giving either the Liquor, the Radiffies, 
or the Root itfelf. But after all, being unreason- 
ably given, or in too large a Dofe, it often brought 
on a Train of direful Symptoms, which Sometimes 
terminated in the Death of the Patient. The Hel- 
lebore growing in the Hands of Anticyree was account- 
ed the bell ; infomuch that it was cuftomary for Peo- 
ple to go thither, that they might be fure of having 
the right Sort. Hence naviga Anticyras became a 
Proverb, being as much as to fay. Go purge off your 
Madnefs . But M. bourne fort , who feveral Times 
gave an Extradt of this Hellebore, found the Dan- 
ger attending its Operation fo great, that he was 
obliged to forbear the Ufe of it. On Account of 
this dangerous Quality Hellebore is feldom given 
at prefent, efpccially fince the emetick and cathar- 
tick Preparations of Antimony have been in Ufe 5 
which, in my Opinion, are much fafer, and no 
lefs efficacious. However, as the Hellebore which 
we have in Prance , is not near fo rough as that 
employed by the Ancients, it may be given in 
Subftance from gr. xv. to 9ij. in Deco&ion from 
5]. to gij. and in Extradt, prepared with Rain- 
Water, from gr. xij. to 9j. and we muft obferve, 
that Cream of Tartar, Sal Prunel, Tamarinds, Oxy- 
mel, and the Juice of Quinces, are better Correc- 
tors of it than Aromaticks. 
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