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Materia Medica

Stimulants

this disease, I have but little to say, in the diarrhea it is necessary,
though this is a favourable symptom, in the confluent small pox it
is usefull. I employ’d it however cautiously because it increases the
eruption and Pitting.

Opthalmia. It has been employ’d
in some cases adventageously, Mr Mire of England has used it
by instilling into the eye three or four drops of Laudanum in the
course of twenty four hours in the painfull cronic Opthalmia
to which boys are subject, it usefull in an eye wash.

Dropsy. In some cases of this disease it has done good by
its diaphoretic power. I have used Dovers powders in some slight
cases of Anasarca, succeeding remittant and intermittant fevers. I
should think it would be usefull in dropsy which is the effect of cold.

Diabetes. In this it is an important remidy, sometimes a hot
and dry skin are attendants on this disease and cause evidently for
Dover's powders, such cases I think cannot be rare.

Hemorrhages. Preceded and accompanied by active pulse
&c, it is improper, but sometimes even in active hemorrhages opium
is an excellent remidy as these are sometimes owing to irritation,
but it is frequently usefull when the irritation is not present, in
uterine hemorrhage it is verry usefull with allum, and in some of the