26 DATURA STRAMONIUM. 
properties of the Stramonium by Dr. Marcet of 
London, Physician to Guy’s Hospital. As the 
result of his experience, it appeared that this 
medicine taken internally had relieved acute 
pains of various kinds more effectually than any 
other narcotic substance. Its usual effects under 
his observation, when administered in appropriate 
doses, in chronic diseases attended with acute 
pain; were, to lessen powerfully and almost imme- 
diately sensibility and pain; to occasion a sort 
of nervous shock, which is frequently attended 
with a momentary affection of the head and eyes, 
with a degree of nausea, and with phenomena re. 
sembling those produced by intoxication ; to ex- 
cite in many instances nervous sensations, which 
are referred to the esophagus or bronchiz or fau- 
ces, and which sometimes amount to a sense like 
suffocation ; to have rather a relaxing, than an 
astringent effect on the bowels ; to have no mark- 
ed influence on the pulse, except in a few instan- 
ees to seem to render it slower; to produce but 
a transitory and inconsiderable dilatation of the 
pupil, and to haye but little immediate tendency 
to produce sleep, except from the state of com- 
parative serenity and ease, which follows the pre- 
ceding symptoms.—In some instances its bene- 
ficial effects were obtained without the patient 
experiencing any of the uneasy sensations above 
mentioned. 
