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 ( 12 ) extraordinary febrifuge and antlfeptlc virtue of the Arnica, which' have been fo highly extolled by Dr. Collin It had long been a defideratum of his to find an European plant of equal medicinal powers with the Peruvian bark in ftvers of the intermitting and putrid kind ; and after feveral fruitlefs trials of dif- ferent fimples, at laft he had the fatisfadlion to find them in the Arnica ; for by the flowers of this plant, made into an eleOiuary ‘‘ with honey, he cured more than one thoufand patients labouring under the different fpecies of intermittent fevers in the Pazman hof- pital, from December 1771, to July 1774; and during the follow- ing winter the Dodtor made trial of a watery extradl of the flowers, by which he cured thirty quotidians, forty-fix tertians, and fifty- - eight quartans In putrid fevers the Dodtor experienced equal fuccefs with the flowers employed in the way of infufion with which many hun- dreds of patients were fnatched from the very jaws of death. How- ever, there are fome cafes where the Doctor recommends the root in preference to the flowers, believing the former to poflefs more cordial, tonic, and antifeptic qualities ; and it is accordingly diredted in thofe cafes where putridity and debility are more prevalent than fever ; alfo in a malignant dyfenteiy Dr. Collin could relate many hundred inftances of the fuperior efficacy of Arnica root, and his pradlice in this difeafe was imitated and confirmed by Dr. Diet! *. Dr. Collin farther afcertains the medicinal powers which he at- attributes to this root in thirteen cafes of gangrenes, where its anti- E Hen. Jof. Collin, phyfician to the Pazman hofpital, De arnicas in febribus, & aliis morbis putridis viribus. R. Pulv. Flor. Arnicae drach. Ix. mellis q. f. bidui fpatio abfumendum. of y^nica in intermitting fevers, if we except the two cafes Rated by Aaflcow ( 1 . c.) where it a 6 led as a powerful evacuant. Bergius employed it in quartan intermittents, which were aggravated, rather than bettered, by the ufe of this medicine, m. m. 1 R. Flor. arnicae unc j. infunde in s. q. aquae fervidae per ^ horam, deinde vafc claufo per medium | horae ebulliant ; colat. lib. ij. add. fyr. capill. vener. q. f. ad gratiamj et omni bihorio diei fumat unc ij. R. Pulv. Rad. Arnicae unc. ij. digcre in phiala alta balneo arena adaptata, exadc claula, per 12 horas cum aq. q. f. colatur unc. xxx. adde fyr. aelth. unc. iij. ni. fumat seger omni bihorio unc. ij. vel iij. And to make this medicine more palatable to the patient, he occafionally added lemon juice, fpt. vitriol, or wine. ^ Phyfician to the military hofpital of invalids, at Vienna. feptic
 * Dr. Collin is, we believe, the only author who has experienced the good efFedls