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IPoTlowed with lofs of voice and fenfe ; the pulfe became fmall and 



quick, the extremities cold, the limbs paralytic, the features diftorted, 

 accompanied with violent delirium, continual watchfulnefs, and a 

 total fuppreffion of all the evacuations ; but in a few hours he was 

 reflored to his former flate of health/ 



Every part of the plant appears to poiTefs a narcotic power/ but 

 the feeds are the only part, of whofe fatal effects we find inftances 

 recorded. Their foporiferous and intoxicating qualities are well known 

 in eaftern countries,*" and if we can credit the accounts of fome 



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authors, have been converted to purpofes the moft licentious and 

 dilhonourable/ The internal ufe of Stramonium, as well as that of 

 feveral other deleterious plants which we have had occafion to notice, 

 was firft ventured upon and recommended by Baron Stoerck, who 

 gave an extract prepared of the expreifed juice of the plant, with 

 advantage, in cafes of mania, epilepfy, and fome other convulfive 

 aifedions.^ But as the fuccefs of this plant, even in the hands of 

 the Baron, was not remarkable enough to claim very extraordinary 

 praife, his account of the efficacy of the Stramonium probably 

 would not have procured it a place in the Materia Medica of the 

 Edinburgh Pharmacopoeia, had its character relied folely upon his 

 reprefentation. Odhelius tells us, that of fourteen patients fuffering 

 under epileptic and convulfive aifedions, • to whom he gave the Stra- 



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According to Haller, " Deliria facit utique & fopores, Inde amentiam, maniam, con- 

 ^ulfiones, paralyfes artuum, fudores frigidas, litim vehementem, tremores/' L c. 



^ For that of the root, fee Ray^ L c. For that of the leaves, Doderlin^ Comm. Nor* 



/. c. p, 15. 



" Ab Indls inter alia inebriantia et aromatica In eleftuarium reclpitur femen, ad 

 grata phantafinata cienda, et, ut quidam volant, quo ad celera patranda tanto audaciores 

 evadant/' Kampher^ Exot. p. 650. Cit^dihY Murray^ App. Aied. voL up. 458. 



It was a cuftom with the Chinefe to infufe the feeds In beer. Sprat^ Hlft. of the Royal 



Society^ p. 162. 



f '^ Somnum facIt adeo profundum, ut Impune pudicitia puellas violarl poffit, quae hoc 



toxicum fumferit/' See Haller^ I. c. A mullerculis infidis Turcis, gynec^eis inclufis, 



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