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Dropfy, but .ra here we are not certain. We have hadlately an inftance, in this place, of a woman labouring un-der an Anafarca, and feemingly an Afcites, which has re-filled every mcdic:ne, who, by drinking largely of a mineralwater, brought on a area: flow of water, and was relieved.There are inftances in phyfic of a cure performed by com-mon water, but ftill the cafe is doubtful.

PARTICULAR DIURETICS.

Of the vegetable Diuretics I have marked two natural or-ders.

1. The Umbellata, which hnve univerfally a diuretic powerafcribed to them. Their cff :£ts are never very evident, al-though, liki the Ckuta, they may be ufeful wi.hout thefebeing fenlible. I have fet down fuch as are mod employed,but cannot fay how far the choice is accurate.

2. Stellatce. The whole of this clafs are aftringent, and itis to this property that their diuretic virtue, if ever theyexert it, is, I imagine, to be imputed. Although thefe arethe only natural orders particularized, yet under the titleStimvlatitia, referred to, will be found the Siliqvofte, &c.with which I might have encreafed the lift, as every one ofthem is famous in this way.

What follow next are a Mijcellaneous Set, put togetherfrom various fources, upon very uncertain foundation, ex-cept with regard to a few.

Afarum, Genijla, and Sencka, are mentioned, to fhow thatall Emetics and Cathartics, by proper management, may berendered diuretic. Thus Ipecacuan, by ftrong coction, willlofe its emetic, but referve a diuretic power.

Abfynthium, Carduus, Ruta, &c. are all, on many occafi-ons, evidently diuretic, but without any pretenfions to falineacrimony.

With regard to the reft, hardly any particular marks needbe made.

Dulcamara is a fpecies of Solanum, and of the nature ofit and the other Luridcg. Its berries are narcotic, which theleaves and bark are, in a lefs degree, with the addition of apurgative virtue. The woody parts are at leaft narcotic,fomewhat purgative, and more diuretic. The ufe of thishas lately been reftored by Linnceus, who gave §ij. of theStipities in deco&ion, which he and his compatriots recom-mend as a cleanfer of every acrimony in the blood.

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