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Materia Medica

Astringents

The Sach. Sat. may generally if not always exhibitted with
perfect safety, yet it may be well in cases in which we have not
already used the medicine to watch its effects with nice
attention, there are I believe some persons that are liable to be
injured by verry small doses of lead. I believe it is a fact
whether taken internally or applied to the surface in form of vapores
it does not in general produce its bad effects untill some
days after it has been used. The largest dose that I ever gave
as I have already said was grs viij [8 grains] combined with grs i [1 grain] of
Opium, much larger doses have been given by others the late
Dr Jones gave ℈i [1 scruple] to a lady with Uterine hemorrhage and
thereby saved his patients life. I have heard of grs XXXVi [36 grains] being
given in twenty four hours, if after using it three or four days
it does not become usefull I desist for as many and then resume
its use. I cannot think there is any such thing as specifics
but I think the Sach. Sat. comes nearer a specific in
hemorrhage than anything else.