Paper, 'Concerning the difficulty in curing fluxes' by Wm [William] Cockburn Concerns the use of 'ipecacuanha' (Carapichea ipecacuanha) [ipecac] in France. Cockburn describes how ipecacuanha can be used to treat some forms of 'looseness' in the body. Subject: Medicine Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'A discourse concerning the difficulty of curing fluxes, writ occasionally on reading Dr. De Jussieu’s memorire in the history, &c. Of the Royal Academy of Sciences in Paris, for the Year 1729' Read to the Royal Society on 4 January 1732 [1732]