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Materia Medica

Emetics

suitable. Emetics are the best Possable medicines in some Paralytic
Affections, when the head is much diseased, they have often been
beneficial in Mania, not however the Phrenictic species or when
there is much fever, though I have seen them do much good even
when there was much excitement, nauseating doses frequently do much
good where vomiting would not, they keep down and depress the violence
of the strengh of Maniacal Patients, much more frequently than
bleeding, cupping, &c. Emetics have been much recommended in
Puerperal Fever. Mr D_ has advised us to trust chiefly to
them. I was once verry fond of this practice untill in violent case
I was induced to employ the lancet and found it to be more effectual.

Hemorrhages of Red Blood. Emetics have been employ’d
with advantage. Dr Robinson recommended in Hemoptysis.
Dr Cullen tried them although in one
case he found them to increase the vomiting verry much, yet he
thought they would often be beneficial; Dr Robinson thought
they would produce a constriction upon the extremities of the vessels,
which put a stop to the hemorrhage.

Minctus Cruentus.
Or Bloody Urine, I have had much experience in this practice. I have
employ’d the medicine more in Uterine Hemorrhages, it must be