Two letters to Dr. Jones on the composition of the eau medicinale d'Husson / by James Moore.

  • Moore, James Carrick, 1763-1834.
Date:
1811
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Credit: Two letters to Dr. Jones on the composition of the eau medicinale d'Husson / by James Moore. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Greek physicians. It was known to be a very violent emetic and purgative, and prescribed in desperate cases. It was par- ticularly celebrated for the cure of madness; and the fame of Anticyra, where Hellebore abounds, is known to all. Pliny describes it as a most powerful remedy, and enumerates a multitude of diseases which he asserts it cures. The following passage contains an extraordinary eulogium.* “ (Elleborum album) medetur ita morbis comitialibus, ut diximus, vertigini, melan- cholicis, insanientibus, lymphaticis, ele- * (The White Hellebore) also cures epilepsy, as was already said; the vertigo, melancholy, madness, hydro- phobia, the elephantiasis, the leprosy, the locked jaw, tremors, the gout, dropsy, the incipieut tympanitis, sto- mach complaints, spasms of the face, the sciatica, quar- tan agues which resist other remedies, obstinate coughs, inflammations, and gripiugs which frequently recur.—Ptin. Nat, Hist. Book xrv. chap, v.