Colonial North America: Countway Library of Medicine

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Materia Medica

Tonics

been accused and perhaps justly of inducing scurvy whenever it may be used to too great extent.=

Muriate of Baryte. Baryte or ponderous earth from which the muriate is obtained, is never found pure but combined with the sulfuric or carbonic acids forming a sulphurate or carbonate of Barytes it has been found in the neighborhood of this city, the muriate of Barytes is verry unpleasant to the taste and its effects under some some circumstances are deleterious in scrophulous affections it has been recommended in doses from five to ten gtt. [drops] it has also been advised in venerial symptoms and cancers, we have been told it produces a cure in some diseases when the bark has failed.

Lime. When pure is soluble in water, the solution has a styptic taste, lime water has shown evident tonic effects taken in the quantity of a wine glass full 3 or 4 times a day in Dyspepsia it has been frequently used with the desired effect as an anthelmintic. In vomitings which occurred in the yellow fever and other diseases, in 1798 I visited a woman on the 5th day (with the yellow fever) of the disease she was affected with the black vomit I immediately ordered lime water which prevented the vomiting for that day the next morning the vomiting returned and was arrested by the same