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Materia Medica

Emetics

but not in the humeral, though this medicine is so usefull in relieving
asthma, yet the effluvia of it is said to induce the disease. I once
had a pupil Dr Samuel Jones who was always affected with
asthma from weighing out Ipecacuanha, suspecting it to depend
verry much upon the immagination I once mixed some of it with
Jalap unknown to him, and desired him to weigh out a certain
quantity of Jalap, this also produced a fit of asthma, though not
so violent as when he weighed out the Ipecacuanha alone. Dr
Scot mentions two similar instances. Ipecacuanha has been
found usefull in dropsy particularly anasarca in the form of Dovers
powders. I have not had so much experience in this practice, but
I have adopted it in some cases, and never failed to relieve some
patients who were afflicted with Hydrathorax and anasarca, there
is no disease in which Ipecacuanha is more employ’d than
in dysentary. Dr James Clark has used it in infusion this he
thinks produces more perminant effects than in substance, he
prefers the Ipecacuanha to antimony as it does not produce so
much debility which circumstance renders the latter more particularly
proper in a warm climate such as Dr Clark practiced in. Dr
Dick of East Indies used the Ipecacuanha in infusion to great