An inquiry into the history, nature, causes, and different modes of treatment hitherto pursued, in the cure of scrophula and cancer / by William Nisbet.

Date:
1795
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    though not in curing it. At the fame time, even thefe good effects are confined folely to the milder external forms of it; for, in all the in- ternal fpecies, as well as the affections of the joints, it evidently does mifehief. The bell form of preferibing it, in this diforder, is the lime-water tincture ; and in all the external forms, to be fuc- cefsful, it fhould be largely employed, and long continued. After the bark, on an authority flill more re- fpeCtable, viz. that of Dr Cullen, we are induced to mention the ufe of the Coltsfoot, (or Tuffilago); a ftrong decoClion of the leaves, or where it can be had, the real exprefl juice, is the form prefer- red by him. This author’s fcepticifm, as to the ac- tion of remedies in general, in the cure of difeafes, adds much weight to his recommendation here. Various ajlringent vegetables, as well as the lad, have, at different periods, had a reputation as fpe- cifics in this difeafe ; but none of them have flood the ted for any length of time, and are juft- ly gone into neglect : Of thefe may be enume- rated the Vervain, (Verbena,) Figwort, (Scrophti- laria), &-c. From their allringent principle, they are undoubtedly fomewhat tonic; and they have been found, on trial, mod ufeful, when joined with fome article of the Narcotic tribe. Of the Mineral Tonics,Jleel is the principal one that has been prefcribed in Scrophula. We have already taken notice of it, in the form of the Cha- lybeate Mineral IVater, in which its powers, as a tonic.