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recoiled! at prefent, feem to have taken little or no notice 
of its ever producing fuch an effect as the above, quin- 
ce y, however, if I remember right, mentions its pro- 
ducing afthmas; but then he feems to mean, that it has 
that effect lometimes when taken internally, but not by 
means of its effluvia. 
Mr. leighton, a reputable furgeon and apothecary in 
Newcaftle, told me, that the effluvia of ipecacoanha had 
the very fame effedl upon his wife, as it is above de~ 
fcribed to have had upon Mrs. S. ; and that he had once, 
in particular, very near loft her from having fome of it 
powdered in his fliop. 
The ip £ co. count ci which ha.d the above eftedts upon 
Mrs. S. was the common officinal afh-coloured or grey 
kind. 
Mrs. S. has now (061. 20, 1775) quite recovered her 
flefh, ftrength, colour, 8cc. I have fometimes thought 
ftnce, that perhaps mufk in pretty large doles might have 
been of fervice to her. 
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