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Materia Medica

Stimulants

cannot say that it produced any effectual cure yet it moderated
the symptoms, in one case in particular where the disease depended on
an affection of the uterus it was of great service.

In Chorea Sancti Viti, It has likewise been employ’d,
this verry often proceeds from unknown causes in this vallerian is said
to be usefull. Dr Fordyce advises in Hemicrania Ʒi [1 dram] of the Pulv.
Val. three or four times a day and to continue this for some time, I
have employ’d it in this disease with great advantage in some cases
where bark and Arsenic did no good were cured by valerian, I
found it to improve the bark verry much when added to that
medicine In Putrid Fevers, It has been found usefull as Virginia
Snake Root. It has been employ’d at the Hospital in Vienna,
externally apply’d experiments have proved it to be antiseptic, it
is usefull in Costiveness it has been much praised as an
anthelmintic, of this virtue of the vallerian I shall speak more fully under
the head of anthelmintic, but will now mention one case of Epilepsy
depending upon worms. I gave Calomel, Bled, Purged, but all
to no effect, one morning I was told by the mother of the patient
that she suspected the disorder to be owing to worms, I then gave
X grs [10 grains] of the vallerian two or three times a day the boy voided a quantity