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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    p A N D HISTORIES* 49 purged, and generally was attended with a gentle moiflure. It commonly brings on a calmer hate, and deep, which the emetic tartar feldom does. It often relieves the head-ach. Thefe different operations are not to be attributed to a greater proporti- onal dofe of emetic tartar than of James’s powder; for, in three of the cafes, the former had no obfervable eftedts; and a third of a grain, after many trials, is the quantity I can moft rely on for fenfibly affedting the ftomach. Belides, the dofes of James’s powder, exhibited in the preced- ing experiments, are much greater than what are generally given here. 3. From the effedts of the two medi- cines, as above hated, we may, perhaps, fee the reafon, why emetic tartar is not fo fuccefsful in the typhus, as in the fyno- chus *; nor fo ufeful in the former as James’s powder. That fever, efpecially in its progrefs, becomes worfe after evacua- tion. I have feen purgatives, clyfters, and gentle fweating, hurtful in it. It can be no furprife, then, that a medicine, fuch as D the * Genus Compofitum ex fibre Inflammatoria & Nervofa. Vid. Prlnc. Medic. De Morb. febril. Part 2d, feft. 4.