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Materia Medica

Cathartics

before the expected accession. I had a patient not long since for whoom
every thing was try’d ineffectually she at last got hold of this prescription
and cured herself. I have also lately used with much advantage in colic
pains from spasm.

Rx
Flor. Sulp. sublim Ʒi [1 dram]
Cows Milk ℥ij [2 ounces]

M a draught to be
given every 3 or 4 hours.

Cold. This when apply’d to the feet are often cathartic, and
frequently succeed in relieving violent constipation when other means have fail'd,
in cases of "Colica Pictonum" I found great advantage from water
being apply’d, in evacuating the intestines, perhaps the practice is a
nicer one than it at first would appear to be, it is improper when
there is an inflamation of the intestines, certain kinds of gestation
have a remarkable effect upon the intestinal canal, riding on horse
back is verry of a cathartic but sometimes it induces costiveness.
Linneus proved it to be an anthelmintic.