A dissertation on the Oleum Palmae Christi, sive Oleum Ricini; or, (as it is commonly called) castor oil; in which its history is illustrated; its properties and virtues explained; and its uses in bilious, calculous, and other disorders recommended / By Peter Canvane.

  • Canvane, Peter, 1720-1786.
Date:
1775
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Credit: A dissertation on the Oleum Palmae Christi, sive Oleum Ricini; or, (as it is commonly called) castor oil; in which its history is illustrated; its properties and virtues explained; and its uses in bilious, calculous, and other disorders recommended / By Peter Canvane. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the Hebrew, agnus caftus, or cajior oil—this oil, I fay, I have given with fuccefs in dyfenteries? or bloody fluxes. It is fometimes difputed whether mild oils, fuch as oil of fweet almonds, bind or relax the body; becaufe, if they are taken in a dyfentery, they bind, but in hypochondriacal affec¬ tions relax.—But if we conftder, that the caufe of a dyfentery is fomething acrid,, vellicating the fibres of the inteftines, and that the proper¬ ty of mild oils conftfts in obtunding aerids, by fheathing them, we fhall eafily perceive they ffiui be of fervice in a dyfentery : but in hypochondria¬ cal affeffiions the paffages of the inteftines are dry and crifp, and their fur faces unequal and rough 5. hence mild oils, being applied to them, take a- way their crifpnefs and corrugation, by lubri¬ cating and then relaxing them. The ufe of this lubricating oil is mofi beneficial to thofe bodies that are dry, hot, atrabilious, troubled with the piles 9 and that enjoy a plentiful perfpiration for thefe will be purged with oily medicines, when the ftrongeft draftics will have no effect 5 for if we confult all the Italian eminent phyficians who have written on bilious cholics, fuch as Bag- liviy Bellini, &c. they are the moft averfe, in 2 all