THORN APPLE. a7 
The cases in which Dr. Marcet employed the 
Stramonium, with their results, appear in the fol- 
lowing summary. In four cases of Sciatica, decid- 
ed benefit was obtained. ‘The efficacy of the med- 
icine was still more strongly marked in two cases 
of sciatica combined with syphilitic pains. It 
failed in two instances of diseased hip joint. It 
produced considerable relief of pain in a case of 
supposed disease of the spine, followed by para- 
plegia ; and likewise in one of cancer of the 
breast. It allayed materially the pain occasioned 
by an acute uterine disease. It was of great and 
repeated utility in a case of Tic doloureux, its util- 
ity in a second case of the same description was 
very doubtful, and in a third it entirely failed. 
There are some atithorities for the success of 
Stramonium in Chorea. Professor Chapman of 
Philadelphia has found it of use in dysmenorrhea, 
also with or without mercury in syphilitic and 
scrophulous ulcers of ill condition. 
The external use of Stramonium is of much 
older date than its internal exhibition. Gerarde 
in his Herbal, published in 1597, says, “The 
iu'yce of Thorne apples, boiled with hog’s grease 
to the forme of an unguent or salve, cureth all in- 
flammations whatsoever, all manner of burnings or 
sealdings, and that in very short time, as my- 
