Observations on indigestion: in which is satisfactorily shewn the efficacy of ipecacuan, in relieving this, as well as its connected train of complaints peculiar to the decline of life / [M. Daubenton (Louis-Jean-Marie)].

  • Daubenton, M. (Louis-Jean-Marie), 1716-1799
Date:
1807
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Credit: Observations on indigestion: in which is satisfactorily shewn the efficacy of ipecacuan, in relieving this, as well as its connected train of complaints peculiar to the decline of life / [M. Daubenton (Louis-Jean-Marie)]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ADVERTISEMENT Ipecacuanha., now ascertained to be the root of the Callicocca Ipecacuanha, has long been used in this country, as a safe and gentle emetie. The effects of it, taken in small doses, as an alterant, do not appear to have been so much attended to, at least by the generality of practitioners : although administered in this manner, as a specific for dysentery, it was first introduced as a medicine on the continent, by the celebrated physicians Helvetius and Piso, where it still continues to be considered as an efficacious medicine by the viost respectable prac¬ titioners, The original tract of Mr. Daubenton on this subject having been long extremely rare, I made the following translation from a borrowed copy, for my own use ; and when I acquiesced in the request of a respectable bookseller, to permit