EUPHORBIA
IPECACUANHÆ.
Authority.
Bigelow’s Sequel, 1822, p. 177,
experiment.In doses of from ten to twenty grains it is both and
emetic and cathartic, that is more active than ipecacuanha in proportion
to the number of grains administered; in small doses it operates with as
much ease as most emetics in a majority of instances. If it fails,
however, at first, it is not so safely repeated as many of the emetics
in common use. If accumulated in the stomach to the amount of two or
three scruples, it finally excites active and long-continued vomiting,
attended with sense of heat, vertigo, indistinct vision, and great
prostration of strength. Its operation seems exactly proportionate to
the quantity taken, and the vomiting is not checked by the powder being
thrown off in the first efforts of the stomach.® 2000
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