Clinical experiments, histories, and dissections / by Francis Home, M.D. one of His Majesty's physicians, fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, and professor of materia medica in the University of Edinburgh.

  • Home, Francis, 1719-1813.
Date:
1783
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Credit: Clinical experiments, histories, and dissections / by Francis Home, M.D. one of His Majesty's physicians, fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, and professor of materia medica in the University of Edinburgh. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    naufea, and fometimes fv/eating and purg- ing. Although it does not quicken the pulfe, yet it may ftimulate the fmaller vef- fels into quicker adtion, by which power alone the obftrudtion can be removed. We found that two drachms of it to the bottle of water is a fufficient dofe. When half a drachm more was added, it pro- duced too great ficknefs. SECT XXII. Experiments upon the Effects of the Verhaf- cum in Diarrhoea. Botanifts differ about the fpecies of this plant that is to be ufed. Some recom- mend the yellow, others the white mul- lein. The white, or Cows Lungwort, is the one generally preferred, and which was ufed in the following experiments. Its tafte is a little rough, though it is not aftringent. It has been for fome years, much ufed abroad, efpeciaily in Italy, as a pedtoral, in decodtion, under the name of Bouillon blanc, which name it gets from an addition of fome white meat, as the de- codtion