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Materia Medica

Sialagogues

in lime water with this I washed the part affected in a few days the
cure will be completed. I consider myself the discoverer of this remdy.
I laboured under this disease when a child in me it was first induced
by wandering in the woods after plants. Upon going to Europe it was
spontaneously cured but upon my return to America I was again
aflicted with it untill the year 1797 when I cured it by the means of
muriate of mercury. I think that the mercury besides curing the preasant
affection renders the patient less liable to be effected in future, the same
effect is produced upon the disease induced by cashew nut of the
West Indies, a disease which resembles the former in all its
phenomena. Sometimes after a blister has been used there remains small
vessicles which itch extremely and filled with a thin plucid [pellucid] fluid, these
continue for sometime, the are however completely subdued by
washing the part with a weak solution of the Sublimate in lime
water, for no mild measures will answer.

The Formicat Pungens
is also a cutaneous affection it consists in a painfull itching like
the bite of a pismire, it is sometimes discribed like innumerable pins
sticking in the skin, this also removed by a solution of the sublimate
rubbed on the part affected, we should not treat it lightly when our
patients attempt to discribe it, it commonly accompanies paralytic and