/ 
19 
% 
who gave tlie Wolf's-bane internally, as a med 
:1 fi 
h 
periments were publifhed 
m 
76 
3 
it \ 
las 
b 
often fuccefsfully employed in Germany, a 
Europe, particularly as a remedy for obft 
lerally a 
the northern parts 
ge 
d 
c 
heumatiims 
many cafes are related where this difeafe was of feveral ) 
: and 
dura- 
tion, and had withftood the efiicacy of other powerful medicines,. 
mercury, opmm 
ely cured by the Aeon 
rniony, cicuta, 
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C. 
yet 
Inft 
a fhort time, were 
alfo given us of its 
good efFeds in gout, fcrophulous fwellings, venereal nodes, amaurolis 
^ 
fevers, & 
c. 
B 
defcrib 
fudorifera, diuretica, fubvertiginofa ; r^r<?;/j- venenata 
Virtus to be pell 
matifmus 
thr 
malum ifchiadicum 
vfi 
us 
5 
rheu 
J 
This plant has been generally prepared as an extrad or infpiffated 
the Edinburgh and many of the 
fter the manner directed 
fhould b 
foreign pharmacopoeiaSj and like all virulent medicine 
£rlt adminiftered in fmall dofes. Stoerck recommends two grains of the 
extrad to be rubbed into a powder, with two drams of fugar, and to 
begin with ten grains of this powder two or three times a day. We 
find however,- that the extrad is often 
given from one g 
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year 15 
and two at 
Prague, in 1561, of whom two foon perifhed, the other two, with great difficulty, 
recovered. Matthiol. in Diofcorid. p. 768. It has frequently been eaten by miftake 
Pempt, L. 4. p. 442. Bacon, 
Willis de Anima brutor. p. 289. D 
Tra 
Stirp, 
And the foliowing re- 
markable faft is faid to have happened at Sweden :— A perfon having eaten. fome of the 
frefh leaves of the Napellus, became maniacal, and the furgeon who was called to his 
affiftance declared, that the plant was not the caufe of the diforder ; and, to convince 
the company that it was perfedly innocent, he eat freely of its leaves; but he fufFered. 
temerity, for foon after he died in great agony 
Moraeus 
s 
739 
V 
h Stoerck libell. de ftramon, &c. Contin. E 
Rofenftein, Hall Epift. vol. 5. p 
Handl. 1773 
74 
Obfer 
307 
Ribe, 
Odhelius, ibid. 1776 
Libell. de Pulfatill. Nig. p. 58. 
V. parf. 2. Blom Vet. Acad. 
Haft, Med. Virkets tilftand, d. 
de ufu falutari Extr. Aeon. 
lil. Gefner. Beobachta, 
2. P. I. p. 120. Tritze Med 
DifT. p. 37. Comment, de rebus, vol. 2. p. 240 
p. 146. 
Medend. P. 3. p. 167 
Dir. 
Hal. 1768. a pag 10 ad 13. 
p. 19b. Tode, Med. chir. Bib. vol. 
I. p. .327. S toller,. Be ob. u. Erf. 
k 
See the authors refe^rred to above. 
Its efficacy is much . diminifhed on being long kept 
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