f 



341 



inonium 



in 



hofp 



^ 



Stockl 



eiglit wer 



1 



1 1-1 .- ,- ■-"- completely cured 



five were relieved and only one received no benefit/ Berelus relate 



three cafes of its fuccefs, viz. one of mania, and two of convulfions; 

 Reef, a Swedifli phylician, mentions its utility in two cafes of 

 Wedenberg cured four gi ' " ' 



the ufe of this medicine.' 



fFeded 

 Other inft 



man 



k 



with convulhve complaints, by 



^ces of the kind might be added, 

 Greding however who made many experiments, with a view to afcer 



a 



the efficacy of this pi 



was 



g 



ber of 



ca 



fes 



fo fuccefsful 



in which h 



for out of 



employed the Stra 



monium, it 



was only in onejiiflance that it effeded a cure; and he objeds to the 



n , 1 1 T^_. ^ n 1. ^^^ ^^^ ground that the patients wei 



\ 



cafes ftated by Dr. Odhel 

 difmiffed before fufficie 

 difeafe would return ag 



time was 

 or not. 



ed to know wheth 



the 



, \ ^^ ^^^^ country we are unac- 

 quainted with any praditioners whofe experience tends to throwr any 



ght on the medical character of 



It appears 



that 



ffeds as a medicine are to be referred to no other power than that 



of a narcotic ; and Dr. Cull 

 have no doubt th 



fpeaking on thisfubjed, fay 



I 



It narcotics may be a remedy in certain cafes of 

 mania and epilepfy ; but I have not, and I doubt if any other perfon 



has, learned to diftinguifh the cafes to which fuch remedies are pm- 

 perly adapted t. • ., ^ , ^ . . 



It 



therefore that we find the other 



cvtcv^cv^vi. XL xa Luciciuic uiai we nna tne otner narcotics, as 

 well^ as the Stramonium, to fail in the fame hands in which they 

 had in other cafes feemed to fucceed. It is this confideration that has 

 occafioned my negleding the ufe of Stramonium, and therefore pre- 

 vented me from fpeaking more precifely from my own experience oa 



thisfubjed."" / -^ 



The extradl of this plant has been the preparation ufually em- 

 ployed, and from one to ten grains and upwards, a day ; but the 

 powdered leaves, after the manner of thofe direded of hemlock, 

 would feem for the reafon there given, to be a preparation more cer- 



* See Fetenjk. Acad, Handl. 1766. p. 277. y^. 

 • V "'^ j^^t- Med. he alfo fays,'" Delirium poft puerperium faepe curavi cum Datura, 



«bi alia fefellerunt ;" add 



cum deliratione manfueta cpnjunaa,' 



ing, " Parlter ilia profuit adverfus ideam fixam ex moerorc 



^^«: ri_ 3> . 



p. 122. 



m. 



Strandberg, om. chron.fpikd. p. ib. ^ Dijf. de Stammonti ufu^ ^V. 



Ludwig. Adverf. vol i. p. 354.^ 



MaU Med. voh iu p. 282. 



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