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herb Datura, that they make it lie several days, 
months, or years, according as they will have it, 
in a man’s body ; and at the end kill him with- 
out missing half an hour’s time ?” : 
Like opium and. like other powerful medi- 
cines, this plant, when taken in small quantity, 
and under suitable regulations, proves a remedy 
of importance, and a useful agent in the hands of 
physicians. In common with some other narco- 
ties, it seems first to have been introduced freely 
into practice by Baron Storck of Vienna, as a rem- 
edy in Mania, Epilepsy, Convulsions, $c. Many 
subsequent physicians have given testimony to its 
eflicacy in certain forms of these disorders, yet the 
instances of its failure have doubtless been more 
frequent than those of its success. In Murray’s. 
Apparatus Medicaminum may be found a sum- 
mary of the reports of many medical men, who 
have tried it with various success in the diseases 
in question, as well as in others. Dr. Cullen has 
no doubt that it may be a remedy in certain ca- 
ses of mania and epilepsy ; but doubts if any per- 
son has learned to distinguish the cases to which 
it is properly adapted. 
Dr. Fisher, President of the Massachusetts 
Medical Society, has published in their communi- 
cations some remarks on the employment of Stra- 
