Volume 1

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 / [Peter Canvane].

  • Canvane, Peter, 1720-1786
Date:
1769
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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 / [Peter Canvane]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    of the Weft-Indies, by this Ample method ; fir ft exhibiting an emetic, according to the indication ; then this oil and emulfion occafion- ally ; at the fame time diluting acids, efpecially in the commencement of the diforder, are of great fervice, as the blood from the beginning is full of putrid alkaline c falts. I don’t doubt but the judicious and learned of the profeffion will approve of this fimple method of treating this terrible diforder, when they confider that the chief and principal feat of this fever is in the right hypochondrium, where the liver and biliary dutts are fituated, and that the bile of all the humours of the human body is the mo ft put refcent, and that this degree of acrimony is heightened by the heat of the cli¬ mate : thus the bile, in this exalted ftate, gets into the blood, brings the whole mafs into a putrid and almoft gangrenous ftate ; will caufe a deep yellownefs all over the body, and fome- times livid fpots and mortifications in various parts. All thefe complaints arife from the -great acrimony of the bile in its moft exalted ftate *, therefore, the chief indication of cure always appeared to me to confift in evacuating and * Tho' the bile is not abfolutsly alkaline, I think it is allowed that it is alkalefcetit, and of the nature of an alkali.