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Materia Medica

Emetics

the dose. I have already spoken of our medicine under the head of
emetics, it has likewise been advised in Intermittants. Dr Cullen
says he knew a physician who cured these fevers by nauseating doses of
Ipecac. Just before the Paroxysm, it answers better than the antimonial
preparations.

Phthisis Pulmonalis. It has been employ’d in small
nausiating doses, and continued for some time. I combine grs i or ij [1 or 2 grains] of
the Ipecac with grs iv or vi [4 or 6 grains] of Cretta. I merely give enough to nauseate in
Asthma. It was much praised by Dr Akenside, I advise you
to read his paper, he says that he is acquainted with no better remidy
in this disease, than Ipecacuanha. In a violent paroxysm of
spasmodic or convulsive asthma he gave ℈i [1 scruple] to relieve it, but in the habitual
indisposition he gave from grs iij to iv [3 to 4 grains] every morning or every other
morning to excite nausea, he says that grs v [5 grains] pukes some people, in
the humeral Asthma this has been recommended along with other
emetics. Dr Akenside thinks this is an unnecessary distinction, in
the confluent small pox when the patient is nearly strangled from being
unable to expectorate, I give Ipecacuanha. Cullen thinks that it
is usefull in Asthma by determining to the skin, he was not verry
successfull in the employment of it. I give it upon the authority of
Dr Akenside with great advantage in the spasmodic asthma