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Materia Medica

Tonics

been accused and perhaps justly of inducing scurvy whenever it may
be used to too great extent.=

Muriate of Baryte.
Baryte or ponderous earth from which the muriate is obtained, is
never found pure but combined with the sulfuric or carbonic
acids forming a sulphurate or carbonate of Barytes it has been found
in the neighborhood of this city, the muriate of Barytes is verry
unpleasant to the taste and its effects under some some circumstances
are deleterious in scrophulous affections it has been recommended
in doses from five to ten gtt. [drops] it has also been advised in venerial
symptoms and cancers, we have been told it produces a cure in
some diseases when the bark has failed.

Lime. When pure is
soluble in water, the solution has a styptic taste, lime water has
shown evident tonic effects taken in the quantity of a wine glass
full 3 or 4 times a day in Dyspepsia it has been frequently used
with the desired effect as an anthelmintic. In vomitings which
occurred in the yellow fever and other diseases, in 1798 I visited
a woman on the 5th day (with the yellow fever) of the disease she
was affected with the black vomit I immediately ordered lime
water which prevented the vomiting for that day the next
morning the vomiting returned and was arrested by the same