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Materia Medica

Stimulants

of worms, and was cured, there are two tinctures from the vallerian
one is made by digesting eight or ten days the pulv. root with a gentle
heat ℥ij [2 ounces] Spt. Vin. Rect. lbij [2 pounds] Tinct. Vol. Vallerian (the other) Is made
by digesting wild vallerian in coarse powder ℥ij [2 ounces] Spt. Vin. Rect. lbij [2 pounds]
the first is a stomachic and this formula is proposed by Dr Cullen
but the best way is to give it in powder.

Conifera. This
is a natural order of vegitables comprehinding the different species
of Pine, these afford various species of turpentine but the purest is that
which is the product of the Savin and which is improperly called
Venice turpentine, it is an acrid substance and when apply'd to the skin
inflames it. Cullen thought it might be rendered a usefull
rubefacient, it was employ’d in the Emplastrum Volatile of the Edinburgh
dispensatory and the only objection to it was it produced an
inconvenient pain, some writers recommend it in recent wounds, but it is
evident it must be injurious, when however from the fluid state of the
wound it is unable to supperate will be usefull.

Spirits of Turpentine. This has been employ’d in burns and
scalds. Authors differ concerning the propriety of this practice, by
some it is said to produce immediate relief, if applied in half
an hour and that the pain never continued longer than two hours