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CONGESTIVE FEVER.
separated by expression and filtered. The dose is from
ten to forty drops.
The Gelseminum is stimulant, tonic, and anti-spas-
modic. By its relaxing effect, it produces gentle dia-
phoresis, and is said by Dr. Rogers and others to be
narcotic. I have used it in but few cases, but am
inclined to the opinion that it possesses narcotic pro-
perties. Its effects in large doses, or when too fre-
quently repeated, is extreme relaxation, and general
prostration of the whole muscular and nervous system.
It will suspend and hold in check muscular irritability
and nervous excitement, with more force and power
than any known remedy." Our experience accords
with this statement. It is of a bitter taste, and exerts
its influence in all febrile diseases, which is remarkable,
without producing nausea, vomiting or purging. When
enough has been given to produce its specific effect, the
eye becomes dimmed, the vision clouded and doubled,
the head light and dizzy. When these effects follow
the administration of the remedy, no more should be
given until the patient has entirely recovered from its
influence. It may be used in all species of fevers, ner-
vous and bilious headache, colds, pneumonia, heemor-
rhage, leucorrhoea, chorea, enlargements of the spleen,
and I am confident it will prove a valuable remedy in
that troublesome disease, asthma, and many other dis-
eases,-its great efficacy is in almost all forms of fever.
It should be used with great care and caution. The
root is said to possess a resinous principle, which, when
extracted by pure alcohol, will, in very small doses, pro-
duce death. But no such effect need be apprehended
from the proper dose of the common tincture. There
is danger of carrying it to such an extent as to suspend152
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Massie, J. Cam. A Treatise on the Eclectic Southern Practice of Medicine, book, 1854; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth143817/m1/152/: accessed April 19, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting University of Texas Health Science Center Libraries.