Medical remarks on natural, spontaneous and artificial evacuation ... / [John Anderson].

  • John Anderson
Date:
1787
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    The peculiarities of different conftitutions, the accidents of life and their effedls, are like- wife fo many and fo various as totally to pre¬ vent a poffibility of fixing them to any efta- blifhed data : and it is fo obvious to every one, that it feems almoft fuperfluous to ob- ferve on, the neceffity of being well acquainted with the particular virtues, and different effefts, of the fame medicine in Its various preparations—Afarum, an emetic In its pri¬ mary Influence on the ftomach, becomes a diuretic when taken In a weak decoftion : an- timonial wine, when taken in fufficient quan¬ tity, vomits, and that powerfully ; diapho¬ retic antimony, fweats ; and yet both are in- fipid to the tafle. In the feleftlon of drugs, we muft not only attend to the apparent dif- criminatlon of their native excellence, but to the time they have been gathered. To ob¬ tain the Intended benefit of thefe, we muft attend to the operations of Nature, and care- les purger, des dofes qui tueroient tous les payfans de ]a plaine. II y a dans les montagnes du Valais, des hommes qui prennent tout a la fois jufqu’a vingt, & meme vingt quatre grains de verre d’antimoine, dont un grain ou deux fuffiroient pour empoifonner des perfonnes ordinaires.” TilTot, Avis au Pcuple, Des Purgations, fea. 5S1, p. 519, fully