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A treatise on foreign vegetables. Containing ... such as are now commonly used in the practice of physick ... / Chiefly taken from the Materia medica of S.F. Geoffroy. By R. Thicknesse.
- Étienne François Geoffroy
- Date:
- 1749
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A treatise on foreign vegetables. Containing ... such as are now commonly used in the practice of physick ... / Chiefly taken from the Materia medica of S.F. Geoffroy. By R. Thicknesse. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![The compound refolving Powder of Stahl. Take of the refolving Powder, made of equal Parts of Shells prepared without Fire, dia- phoretick Antimony and depurated Nitre, §ifs. Extradf of Cafcaril made with Water §fs. Mix and make a Powder. The Powder of Cafcaril with the balfamick Pills is likewife commended in the inflammatory Fever of the Inteflines which arifes from the Mefentery, or dyfenterick Aflfedtions,] J. Junker, a Phyfician of Halle, in his Confpec- tus fherapei# generalise fays, that the Virtue of Cafcaril, fo much extolled by Apinus in malig¬ nant and contagious Fevers, anfwers not the Ex¬ pectations of the Phyfician. He aflures us that he has given it to greater Advantage in intermitting Fevers, which it often cures fuccefsfully when mix¬ ed with other fuitable Medicines *, and that herein it is fometimes preferable to the Peruvian Bark, which being powerfully aflringent, may be preju¬ dicial in many Cafes, if not given with Caution. We fhall here take the Liberty to obferve in palTing, that the fpotted Fevers, in which Apinus gave this Bark with fo much Succefs, though ma¬ lignant, were yet of the Tribe of Intermittents, as Tertians, double Tertians, &c. which, we have obferved after Morton^ this Bark fpecificially cures, provided it be not given too late. Wherefore thofe malignant Fevers in which it is proper, are carefully to be diitinguifbed from thofe wherein it is ufelefs Now we conclude from the Obfervations of Apinus and Junker, that it is proper in all in¬ termitting Fevers, whether malignant or not, but rarely in oth£r continual malignant and contagious Fevers,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30529529_0001_0122.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
