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from frefh feeds, after long keeping grows thick,reddifh, tranfparent, (Bergius>) and rancid,—. itspurgative property decreafing v/ith its increafmg a-crimony, (De Machy ;) and, as there is fometimesdanger of a mixture of different feeds, or of old oilwith the frefh, the College has diretted the apothe-cary himfeif to exprafs ir.

It has been long in ufe as a mild lubricating pur-gative, producing its effect, without griping, in Ca-fes where the more acrid purgatives are thought lefsneceffary or fafe. Itacts fo gently, that it may begiven to new-born infants, andto pregnant and ly-ing-in women, and has been found an ufeful reme-dyin vomiting, iliac paffion, fpafmodic cholic, (Fra-Jer,) afthma from the fumes of lead, (Seile Handb.der med. Prax.) in dyfentery, worms, &c.

It is given to infants in the dofe ofgi, or more;—to adults, from §fs to |i, and repeated (as a largedofe excites naufea and vomiting) at proper inter-vals. See Canvane's Ejfay. Frafer in Med. Obf. andInq. Vol. 2. &c.

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