Observations on gangrenes and mortifications, accompanied with, or occasioned by, convulsive spasms, or arising from local injury, producing irritation / by Charles White.

Date:
1790
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Credit: Observations on gangrenes and mortifications, accompanied with, or occasioned by, convulsive spasms, or arising from local injury, producing irritation / by Charles White. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ 1* ] which naturally renders it lefs pure, and weakens its powers; and it has not generally been prefcribed in a quantity fufficient to give us reafon to expedt any confiderable effeds from it. The julepum e mofcbo of the old Pharmacopeia was too trifling a mode of exhibiting the medicine, which to procure any great and advantageous confequences fliould be taken in fubftance and in large dofes. In the new Pharma- copeia, indeed, the quantity is increafed, from twelve grains to forty grains, under the name of Miftura Mofchata. Of late years, I mull own, its antifpafmodic qua- lities have been determined, beyond the poflibility of doubt or cavil, and, in fome cafes, it has been liberally applied. 4 In 1746, Mr. James Pringle* ordered gr. xij. every four hours, with cinnabar for the gout in the ftomach : Dr. Owen,*^ in 1766, gave half a drachm every four hours, wallied down with volatile julep, in a convulfive cafe. And Dr. Huck£ di- # Effays and Obf. Phyf. and Literary, vol. II. art. 12. -J- Medical Obf. Inquiries, vol. III. art. 21. % Idem. art. 31. I reeled