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Materia Medica

Stimulants

exept in this City when the yellow fever turned towards
that form. I go on then to treat of opium in Phlegmasia,
this constitutes all the order of the class Apyrexia, they are
diseases from inflamation and the generallity of Physicians
consider the employment of opium in them improper,
inflamation has been divided into active and passive, the former
depending on an increased action of the vessels, the latter
proceeding from debility.

Pneumonia Gastritis. Acute rheumatism are an example of the former,
and the passive we adduce some species of Opthalmia, chronic
rheumatism &c, and in acute inflamation the antiphlogistic
regimin as bleeding, purging, blistering &c, are verry proper,
while in the passive species stimulants should be exhibitted
in that kind of opthalmia unattended with active
inflamation, the application of water alone has done harm, while
that of brandy and water has done good, sometimes
however in active inflamation, stimulants of a certain kind
are proper. Dr Young has laid it down as a general rule
that where bleeding is proper opium is not, this is certainly a
verry good rule in general, but must not be adhered to