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Materia Medica

Emetics

in whooping cough emetics have often been found usefull. Dysentary
Here I prefer the antimonial emetics, they have been used in Diarrhea
but more of this herafter, in Diabetes emetics would be often
usefull medicines, Dovers powders have often cured it. Dropsy I have
not try'd them here, but I think in some forms of this disease they
might be usefull, their puking does not diminish their diuretic effect,
the squill often succeeds best when it is given so largely as to excite
vomiting, of this however we shall speak more freely when treating
of diuretics. The Kermes Mineral, has been used with
great advantage in Hydrothorax. In Jaundice emetics have
often been found usefull particularly when it appears to depend upon
calculous cocretions of the billiary ducts, they seem then to act with
the most advantage. In Phthisis Pulmonalis, emetics have
been found usefull when the patient is in a warm bath, in Cynanche
Trachealis, We employ bleeding, blistering, synapisms, and emetics,
the latter in particular are indispensable, I use Ipecacuana and
calomel, this is preferable to the antimonial emetics, the latter produces
too much weakness, in Cynanche Maligna or
Scarlatina Anginosa, They are likewise indispensable remidies,
Asthma Turbith Minneral or Ipecac and calomel are verry