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equally well ; agreeable to what is faid in the Edin- 
burgh obfervations. 
The vitrum antimonii ceratum is a good febrifuge. 
Three or four days ule of this medicine generally 
fuffices for removing the fever accompanying diar- 
rhoea’s, loofenefies, &c. But, in order to its hav- 
ing this effeCt, it mulf either purge or vomit the pa- 
tient ; other wife it cures the loofenefs, but the fever 
continues, and requires a very long ufe of the medi- 
cine to cure it. When it operates in a fenfible man- 
ner, it generally gives the patient an appetite, when 
he is near being cured: but the weaknefs of his do- 
mach does not allow his giving way to it, without 
running great rifks. ; , 
When this remedy operates a cure .vyifhout pro- 
ducing any vidble effects, it would be dangerous to 
increafe the dofe till it caufes evacuations.: for, unlefs 
the patient be of a ftrong conftitution, you endanger 
the bringing on a hypercatharfis. 
Moreover I have obferved, that the finenefs of the 
powder has a great influence on the manner of its 
operation. That, which is very fine, is much more 
active, than that which is fomewhat lefs fo : for ex- 
ample, a grain of the vitrum antimonii ceratum re- 
duced to a very fine powder will have more force and 
action, than two grains of the fame glafs reduced to 
a powder fomewhat lefs fine. Wherefore I always 
preferr’d the firft fort, as productive of more certain 
effects, and lefs incommoding the ftomach. 
The vegetable acids develope and increafe the 
emetic quality of this medicine to luch a degree, 
that you would always put the patient’s life, who 
takes it, in great danger, if you did not abfolutely 
forbid 
