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colluvies. I think one of the ufes of falts of all 
kii ds, efpecially of common fait, is to aCt as a ge- 
neral dimulus; and hence the moderate life of it is 
fo falutary. By thus univerfally dimulating there- 
fore not only the greated, but alfo the fmalled vef- 
fels of the body, this medicine greatly tends to re- 
move all obdruCtions formed, or forming, even in the 
minuted: canals ; and hence mod: fuccefsfully pro- 
motes the natural fecretions and excretions j in which, 
duly performed, health itfelf condfts. 
In obdinate rheumatifms then, in cold fcorbutic 
affections, in mod cutaneous difeafes, in adhmatic, 
leucophlegmatic, and icteric diforders, in old dub- 
born head-aches, vertigo, epilepfy, and mania, anti- 
monials are very ufeful, and the vinum antimoniale 
in particular. In my own practice I have had nu- 
merous indances of its fuccefs in the above cafes, and 
have likewife had the pleafure of finding it fucceff- 
fully ufed by feveral eminent practitioners. 
Let me further add, before I quit the fubjeCt, 
that I very frequently give this antimonial wine, or 
effence of antimony, as I call it, in fome acute as 
well as chronic diforders, and particularly in ilow 
fevers, low irregular intermittents and remittents, in 
catarrhal fevers, in a peripneumonia notha, and even 
in a true peripneumony, after proper evacuations, to- 
wards the clofe, when the fpitting is prematurely fup- 
preffed, and great anxiety and difficulty of breath- 
ing come on. In like circum dances, it is very pro- 
per in the fmall-pox alfo ; and I have had the fatil- 
faCtion, through divine goodnefs, of feeing it many 
times very happily fucceed in many defperate cafes ; 
the expectoration returning fometimes with a gentle 
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