2io OBSTACLES TO THE 
For which reafon they give rather mild, than 
efficacious ones, and ad the part of fpedators, 
rather than phyficians. 
For this reafon perhaps the difciples of Stahl 
rejed the bark ; though from ignorance 
of botany they ufe the cafcarilla , which is 
certainly a very good medicine in fhiver- 
ings, but not totally void of malignity. 
Phyficians did not for a long while pre- 
fume to prefcribe the wild cucumber \ which 
is indeed pretty violent, but by no means 
fo terrible, that it ought not to be ufed 
even in the dropfy. For the fame rea- 
fon they did not venture to ufe the fquill> 
whofe vertue is very great in thining.vif- 
cidities ; viz. becaufe they did not know 
the proper dofe of either of them. The 
gamboge is negleded, though the Turks 
have taught us its efficacy in a quartan i 
and the experiments of our prefident in 
the hofpital at Stockholm have confirm- 
ed their pradice. 
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Small dofes of phyjic. For while phyficians 
have been over-cautious in their prefcriptions, 
they have fallen into the inconvenience of 
doing the patient no fervice; and to confels 
the ! 
