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Materia Medica

Astringents

and Anasarcous legs which have a tendency to mortification, is the
most efficacious remidy. I prefer a blister to lead as in the case of external
inflamation as Erysipelas. It It is employed in burns but should not
be applied to a large surface at once, it is used in combination
with mercury with advantage in Scrophulous Ulcers of young
people but is improper in old people. I shall proceed to speak of its
internal use first in epilepsy. Dr Rush and myself have both
used it in this disease with advantage, it has been recommended
in Chorea a disease nearly allied to Epilepsy with success it is
recommended in several as mania, purtusses &c. I have
no experience of it in those diseases of it is highly spoken of in
intermittans Sach. Sat. is verry effectual in lowering the pulse
it was given in a case where the puse [pulse] was 109 and in six or eight
minutes it was reduced to 96 strokes a phasycian in this
state has used it combined with a poisonous plant, the
kalmia latifolia, for two years in inflamitory fever without success
I am almost afraid to tell you it was successful, but an excess
of timidity in a phasycian is worse than boldness, it has
proved usefull in consumption when combined with opium
in the course of the last five years I have employed the Sach.