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257) ved in water taken and the patient kept warm, it will generally prove sudorific. By moderate exercise or walking in the air , its action is determined to the kidnies. A large [[strikethrough]] d o [[/strikethrough]] dose gently loosens the belly, and still larger proves emetic.
Externally this penetrating salt is an antiseptic; it is proper for lotions and fomentations, against gangrenes and oedematous tumours, it is good for gargarisms, for inflamations of the throat, and tonsils, and for attenuating and [[strikethrough]] disscuss [[/strikethrough]] discussing viscid humours. A young man was suddenly taken with a swelling in his tongue, without any apparent cause; it swelled out of his mouth to such a degree that he could neither speak nor eat, and was in danger of being choaked; a solution of Sal-ammonia in water was ordered him and he did well by the next day. - The utility of this salt is also well know in making melted tin adhere to copper vessels, commonly called tinning them.
[[margin]] Virtues & Use of [[underline]] Carduus Benedictus. [[/underline]] for a Stomachic. [[/margin]]
Carduus Benedictus, the blessed thistle, well worthy the title, is an annual plant, cultivated in garends; it flowers in June & July, which is the best time for gathering it; it should be kept dry, in an airy place, to prevent moulding & rotting, which is is very apt to do. The leaves and seeds are the only parts used in pharmacy; these have a penetrating bitter taste, not very strong nor durable, attended at first with an ingrateful flavour, much of which it loses by keeping , even cold water extracts, in a few minutes, the fine light and more grateful parts of this excellent plant; but if the digestion be continued some hours, the disagreeable parts will also be extracted. 
Hence a strong decoction is exceeding nauceous, and even offensive to the stomach; but rectified spirits of wine gain a very pleasant bitter taste, and remains uninjured in the extract. - The nauceous decoction is sometimes used alone to promote vomiting, and a strong infusion to promote the operation of other emetics; but this elegant bitter, when freed from the offensive parts of the herb, may be advantageously applied to other purposes. - A light infusion of clipped carduus in cold water is excellent in loss of appetite, where the stomach is injured by irregularities; and far preferable to the common compound bitters of the shops. - A strong infusion made in cold or warm water, if drank freely, and the patient be covered up warm, will produce a plentiful sweat, much safer and better, than when forced by confounded Venice treacle, and promote all glandular secretions; or dashed with white wine, it is of great service after catching cold, to restore interrupted perspiration, and set all to rights again. - A quarter of half a pint fasting, or an hour or two before dinner, or both is good to create and appetite; or a dram made from it, to such who can bear nothing colder in their stomach: it also kills worms. - It is a proper bitter to be taken with bark, both to make it sit easier upon the stomach, and to render that drug still more efficacious. - Lesser centaury is entitled also to all we have said on the blessed thistle. - John. Cook. Universal Museum, Vol. III. for 1767. pp. 626.
[[margin]] Cure for the bite of a Mad-dog. See p. 258. [[/margin]]
In the case of a person bitten by a mad-dog, ^ [[insertion]] cuticular [[/insertion]] incissions are to be made about the place bitten, and to let them bleed till they stop of themselves; then to rub into the place bitten, and all about, mercurial ointment, and cover the sore with a mecurial plaister. At night the patient takes a bolus, with two, three, or four grains of calomel, and the next morning a dose of salts, or any other gentle purgative. The morning following he must go into the cold bath.
The mercurial ointment must be rubbed in every night and morning; the mercurial plaister over it. The colomel bolus must be taken every other night, and the p [[strikethrough]] i [[/strikethrough]] [[insertion]] u [[/insertion]] rgative the morning following; and the cold bath used the intermediate days. This process being pursued rigiously during a fortnight, the patient may be assured of safety, provided he has applied immediately upon receiving the bite. J. Andree. Gents Mag. 1777. p. 440.