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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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    ( 4» ) «* « ■» * - ,9 r. -* this the oleum ricini performs in a wonderful manner. Therefore, in the hepatitis and mofl bilious diforders, (as Boerhaave and his learned com¬ mentator obferve) whenever the bowels begin to fend forth a bilious flux before the fourth day, it will be proper to promote that evacu¬ ation, according to Hippocrates's general rule; not by draflics and ftrong purgatives, but by mild emollients, fuch as this oil, uflng at the fame time mild abfterfives, which are able farther to attenuate the matter of the diforder, and render it fluxile \ fuch as frefh whey, made of new milk, in the fpring or fummer feafon, while the cattle chearfully feed on the green pafturage; but this will be rendered more efficacious if it be boiled, as the learned Ba¬ ron VanSwieten 1 obferves, with thofe herbs the botanifts call planipetalous and lattefcent, fuch as endive, fowthijlles, fuccory, dandelion, viper-grafsy and the common gramen m ojjdcinarum, ’ ■' This . a 1 Vid. Boerhaave aphorifm, de i&ero multiplici So coramentar. Baron, Van Sixkten* ' i \ 0 t . , • ' ’ _ » Vel ipfi bubulci vim graminis detargentem nofcunf, obfcr* -Van^o enim ftercus bubulun\ notant obftiu&iones & cruftas pene lapideas,