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Materia Medica

Stimulants

without depending on laudanum. I have kept of [off] paroxysm of epilipsy
by this about two hours before the expected paroxysm. I have apply'd
synapisms to the neck and found them better than blisters, in
Scarlatina Anguinosa, they produce a separation of the gangrenous parts, they have
been supposed to have some effect on the genital organs, restoring the venerial
power, there are some cases of deafness in which these cataplasms
to the ancles have done some good, they were cases of arthritic kinds
and are sometimes relieved by cupping &c. But synapisms are of greater
use in cholera Morbus we generally give laudanum with safety, but
lately where the disease has been more violent I have apply'd synapisms
and give opium in other forms, since adopting this practice I have
never lost an adult patient in this disease. In vertigo I have used them
with great advantage, and have experienced their good effects in my
own person for I have frequently kept off the vertigo by this means, they
are however often however precarious remidies especially when apply'd to
parts which are affected with pain. I one saw a case of a violent pain in
the kidneys which by the application of these to the seat of the disease
was transplanted to the bladder, it was however entirely removed by
applying them to the ancles, this may be said of blisters. In Arthritic
Stranguary blisters are verry serviceable, but when stranguary is induced