A practical treatise on the therapeutic uses of terebinthine medicines : with observations on tubercular consumption, gout, mineral waters, etc. / by Thomas Smith.

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1850
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    Towards the close of the seventeenth century, the Turpentines, like many other medicines of intrinsic value, lost their ground in puhlic estimation ; nor was it until the dawn of the nineteenth centuiy, that physicians deemed them of sufficient importance to be employed as in- ternal remedies in the treatment of other diseases than those of the urinary organs. Younge, and subsequently the celebrated Hunter, were amongst the first to revive their use as styptics. The Dublin physicians were not long in making trial of them in some of the most severe affec- tions to which the human frame is obnoxious. In America, they have been proved to be of eminent service in many febrile diseases. In France, they soon attained a high position as remedies in neuralgic and rheu- matic disorders. Amongst the Hungarians, they are considered a sovereign remedy against all kinds of coughs and bronchial affections. Some of the most eminent medical practitioners of Great Britain have, within the last thirty years, strongly insisted upon their use in almost every malady for which they had previously been regarded by the an- cients as most efficacious. Without disparaging the labours of others, the meed of praise is justly due to Dr. Copland for the high reputation which the Terebinthinate preparations have now attained. PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL PEOPEItTIES, AND MODE OF PREPARATION. In the market, there are several kinds of drags known by the name of Turpentine; and, though differing in many distinctive peculiarities from each other, they nevertheless, in essential properties, are dependent upon the same principles—a volatile oil and a resinous residuum. The true Turpentines are distinguished from the balsams, with which they are
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