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 (11 ) black colour by the addition of fal martis and the powdered leaves adt as a ftrong fternutatory. That the Arnica is a medicine of confiderable activity there can- not be a doubt ; but how far it deferves the extravagant praifes it has received at Vienna, is not for us to determine ; either the fadts ftated by Dr. Collin are not admitted by the phyficians of this country, or we are difregardful of a remedy of the firft impor- tance in the Materia Medica. But as our bufmefs is to adduce whatever is recorded of each plant by authors of refpedtability, (whether of Arnica or 'Hemlock) ftill the medical reader muft form his own judgment of the evi- dence. The virtues of this plant ', according to Bergius, are emetica, errhina, diuretica, diaphoretica, emmanagoga, and from its fuppofed power of attenuating the blood, it has been efteemed fo peculiarly eflRcacious in obviating the bad confequences occafioned by falls a^d bruifes, that it obtained the appellation of panacea lapforum ^ ; and to this refolvent power its fuccefs in fundry difeafes has been ac- counted for, particularly pulmonic complaints, fuppreffio menfium, and vifceral obftrudiions Of the advantages derived from its ufe in paralytic and other affections depending upon an interruption or diminution of nervous energy, we have feveral proofs ^ ; and it is obferved in thefe cafes, that the recovery is generally preceded by great uneafmefs, or acute pain in the parts affeCted. But it is the Bergius, m. m. 683 g'fts. . . . ’ . ' ^ variety of this fpecies with narrower leaves, which is more powerfully medicinal. Gmclin Flor. Sibir. t. 2. p. 153. Fehrius Eph. N. C. Dec. i. ann. 9 & 10. Obf. 2. ACta Med. Berolin, Dec. r. vol. I. n. 4. vol. 10. p. 80. Dec. 2. vol. i. p. 66. Buchner, Dilf. de genuinis princi- piis et effedlibus Arnicae. Schulzius, M. M. De La Marche DilT. deArnicae verae ufu. Rofenftein. Apot. p. 21. Scopol. FI. earn. p. 377. ® Pehr loc. cit. Bruckner, in Sel, Med. Francaf. vol. 3. p. igc. ACt. Berol. Dec. i. • vol. g. p. 24. Quarin, Meth. Med. inflam. p. 80. A£t. Berol Dec. r. vol. 10. p. 82. 1 . c. Dec. 2. vol. 4. p. 92 & 94. Nebel in ACt. nat. cur. vol. 8. Obf. 113. Vater, Diir. de laero. ^ ^ ^ J > ^ Bergius m. m. Junker Therap. gen, p. 173. Efchenbach Obf. p. 353. & Dr. Collin, Flor. Arnicae Vires, mentions 28 cafes •of paralyfis, and 9 of amaurofis. Aafkow So- ciet. Med. Havan. vol, 2. p. 162. extraor-
 * The author has not been able to procure this plant from anv of the London drug-