HEMLOCK. 449 
a general faintness or muscular weakness of the 
whole body. These sensations usually begin in 
the course of half an hour. If the dose has been 
moderate, they will for the most part disappear 
in the course of halfa day, and seldom continue 
beyond twenty four hours. Larger doses occasion 
more seyere symptoms, as it happens with other 
narcotics. 
The idiosyncrasies of different persons render 
them variously susceptible of the action of Hem- 
lock. Some are but slightly affected by a quanti- » 
ty, which would proye dangerous to others. 
The Hemlock has been for many years a sub- 
ject of attention with physicians, and has been 
found a remedy of importance in several diseases. 
It would occupy a volume to state the whole of 
the evidences which have been given for and 
against its use. I shall only mention those com- 
plaints in which it has been most oe and 
particularly in this country. 
In Jaundice.—Dr. Fisher, President of the 
Massachusetts Medical Society, in his paper on the 
narcotic vegetables, bears unequivocal testimony 
in favour of the efficacy of Hemlock in this com- 
plaint. He was first induced to employ it with © 
a view to its relaxing effect in facilitating” the 
passage of biliary calculi. Afterwards it was 
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