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Materia Medica

Tonics

it in this disease with the happiest effacts = In itch* [footnote back 1 page] and lepra
when long continued it is found usefull.

Muriatic
Acid. This is also worthy of notice and has been found
usefull in Dyspepsia in doses of gtt. X. [10 drops] three times a day in water = It has
been taken laterally as a remidy for calculous =In Anguina Pectoris
if used in a gargle it has been found usefull.

Nitric Acid.
I have never spoken of this before as a tonic, but I believe it may
be given in such doses as benefit may be derived from its tonic powers
which I have known it possess = it has been used in Syphilis with
efficacy but I believe it has never made an entire cure of this disease,
I cannot therefore recommend it and think it would be criminal
to trust the cure of this disease to it solely, in Lepra and Hepatitis
it has been used with advantage.

Muriate of Soda.
Or common Salt. The tonic effects of this are obvious from the
dayly use of tonic provisions, in the low state of typhus salted
provisions prove the best tonic, yet some of the good effects of this
medicine cannot be attributed to its tonic powers as in Hymoptisis
in which disease it proves verry efficacious, it sometimes
cures nausea and proves strengthening to the stomach, it is said
to injure the teeth but I believe the opinion to be erronious, it has