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Physician's Materia Medica on Colchicum

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   The corm, also the seed of COLCHICUM AUTUMNALE. Lin. Pur gative, diuretic, diaphoretic, nauseant. Prescribed especially in gout, in which disease it is our most important remedial agent. Dose of the seed or root in substance, 0.13 to 0.5 Grm. (2 to 8 grs.).1


References

1) Nelson, Baker & Co., 1904, Physician's Handy Book of Materia Medica and Therapeustics, Detroit, Michigan.