Volume 2

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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    cure it from abroad; and I can venture to affirm, that, except the peruvian bark in intermitting cafes, I never met with a more valuable medicine in all bilious com¬ plaints, and fome other diforders, which will be fpecified in the courfe of this pamphlet. The truth of this aflertlon I do not doubt but will be attefted by thofe gen¬ tlemen of the profeffion, who have ever pradlifed abroad, and ufed this oil either in the Engliih or French Leeward Carib- bee iflands. « Mr. Frafer, who was furgeon to his majefty’s troops of the ifland of Anti¬ gua, has fome time ago given, in the medical ejfays of London, a very fhort but genuine account of fome of the pro¬ perties of this oil; being the only tradl I have ever feen publifhed of it: which to me feems very furprifing, as I am fure it has been ufed in thofe iflands with fuccefs thefe thirty or forty years.—I could have corroborated every affertion in the fol- B 3 lowing