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Materia Medica

Stimulants

for that, even on the fourth or fifth days after evacuations when
the pulse indicates no inflamation I should use opium, he says
it produced pleasant sleep and sometimes a cessation of the
febrile symptoms. Opium is used with Camphor to produce a
determination to the skin, Dr Campbell used this also and
in mild cases it was thus prepared

Rx
Opium from grs 1 to 1fs [1 to 1½ grains]
Camphor grs. X to XV [10 to 15 grains].

Doct Cullen exhibitted opium with much
advantage and judgment in fevers, in the advanced stage
says he of continued fevers a circumstance occurs which we
cannot account for, the cause of the fever gives irretation to
the brain = which is not of the inflamitory kind but produces
convulsive motion of the limbs to a considerable degree, and
to this irritation we impart the Subsulus Tendinum which noted
as occurring in advanced stage of continued fevers, the same
irretation frequently produces delirium, which is not of the
phrenitic or inflamitory kind which we call maniacal, in this
case he thinks opium a sovereign remidy, commonly to be given
in large doses, and to be repeated every eight hours, he should
have said every four hours unless sleep or a remission of
convulsive motions and delirium allow of longer intervals, it is