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horfe’s leg feveral times, and find it not near fo caufiic 
as without the camphor. And it is well known how 
much camphor involves the fpicula, corrects the acri- 
mony, and mitigates the efFeCts of cantharides, fac- 
charum Saturni, and rough, mercurial, and anti- 
monial preparations. 
Stbly, To water and oil therefore we may juftly 
add camphor as a powerful corrector and expeller of 
poifons in general. This it probably effectuates, ift, 
by blunting the acrimony; idly, by calming the 
nervous fyftem, and fecuring it from fpafmodic tu- 
mult and convulfion, which may be a confequence 
of its fheathing quality ; 3dly, by its extreme fub- 
tilty and volatility, whereby it freely penetrates the 
fmalleft recedes of the body, and powerfully pro- 
motes a diaphorefis. Some late inftances of the ef- 
fects of camphor in poifonous cafes greatly confirm 
this account. 
Thefe three fimple bodies then, water, oil, and 
camphor, challenge the firft place among the anti- 
dotes hitherto difcovered, both for internal and ex- 
ternal ufe, and are much more to be depended upon 
than any of the elaborate compofitions calculated for 
this purpofe by the ancients, as the Theriac. Androm. 
Mithridat. Conf, Paulin, &c. 
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