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.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    might also be derived from the root of the Black Hellebore. This has similar powers, and is far milder than the White. Pliny extols it in the following terms:* ‘c Ni- grum (Elleborum) medetur paralyticis, in- sanientibus, hydropicis, dum citra febrim, podagris veteribus, articulariis niorbis. Tra- hit alvum, et bilem, pituitasque.” Al- though you may smile at this panegyric, you will not consider it impossible, that the weaker medicine may accord with cer- tain delicate constitutions, better than the stronger. Whoever makes this, or any other medical improvement, let him not imitate Husson, and for private gain de- prive mankind of what will soften their * “ The Black Hellebore root cures the palsy, mad- ness, dropsy when without fever, gout of long standing, and diseases of the joints, It purges off bile and phlegm.” —Plin. Nat. Hitt. Hook xxv. chap. v.