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Materia Medica

Tonics

In this disease I have forbid the use of bark, because I
believe it to be hurtfull.

Phthisis Pulmonalis. In this disease the preparations of Iron are
sometimes used to advantage though they have never performed a
cure, they have been used in that debility which predisposes to
Phthisis perhaps with the effect of preventing the disease, in
such cases it is my favorite preparation combined with
Cret ppt. in that variety of consumption described by Murray
and Sydenham in which riding on horseback is so
efficacious the Iron is of great use.

Hemorrhoids.
This disease sometimes depends on increased action of the
Intestinal Arteries &c, here the use of Iron would be improper.
In hemorrhoids of old men it sometimes depends on a laxity
of the vessels as in the decline of life and in the studious and
sedentary, in these cases Iron will prove usefull though more
so when it proves laxative. In this disease I have forbid the
use of the bark because I believe it to be hurtfull.

Dyspepsia. The preparations of Iron have been
employ’d in this disease with more success than any other
medicine, in patients of a plethoric habit I believe it to be hurtfull,