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Materia Medica

Stimulants

and local disorders that are inflamitory, Drs Hoffman and
Wenapoffs have both of them endeavored to prove it acts by its
refrigerant qualities, they have exhibitted it successfully in active
inflamitory affections, in combination with nitre. It has sometimes been
employ’d in pneumonia those who follow this practice bleed &c,
and give the medicine during the remission, in Puerperal fever Porticen
says he gave the camphor with advantage in large and repeated
doses, I think however this example should not be follow’d for this
is a disease of great inflamitory excitement in which the antiphlogistic
plan is found to be usefull successfull, and I should suppose
therefore that camphor would be improper. Our medicine has been employ'd
in acute rheumatism however not alone but in combination with
saline purges and accompanied also with the lancet. Cullen thinks
it better in the chronic rheumatism he says he has had no experience
of the internal administration of it in acute rheumatism, but
that externally apply'd is of great service in removing the
rheumatic pains from joints and muscles, he mentions the case of a
gentleman who was affected with gouty pains and who was advised
to apply the oil of Camphor, it translated the pain to the other foot
after relieving it for about one hour and being applied to that restored