m.. FLORA HOM@OPATHICA. 
that children had but few of these symptoms, and they were 
always more slight, showing the effect only by increased heat 
and swelling of the cheeks.” Yet he says: “If the child be 
over-dosed, uncommon loquacity, staring of the eyes, similar to 
that of epileptics, deep sleep, with profuse perspiration, would 
take place; and the patient would then awake quite free from 
the above-mentioned symptoms.” 
The Danes were accustomed to employ the berries, mixed 
with wine or beer, in dysentery and gout. 
Limberger, who was the cause of Belladonna being first used 
in this country, applied it in cancer. He tried it on himself, in 
proportion of a scruple of the leaves or root to ten cups of 
water, infused for a night, taking a cupful for a dose. It pro- 
duced slight vertigo and unusual thirst, with increfsed arterial 
action. 
Cullen, Graham, and Miinch employed it in cancerous affec- 
tions. Minch advises it in melancholia, epilepsy, and mania, 
and effected many cures. He says, however, “ that even small 
doses have produced mania where none existed.” 
Minch, Ritcher, Mayerne, Bucholz, and Neimeche, have all 
witnessed the good effects of the Belladonna in rabies canina; 
in patients when they have become morose, vitiated in their 
minds, shuddered at food and drink, excessively convulsed, 
and yet they have been successful enough to have witnessed 
them recovered after a short time, to perfect health. 
Cullen mentions a case of a person using the infusion of 
Belladonna, at a distance, and without communicating with him, 
in cancer of the lip, and that dryness and stricture of the 
@sophagus came on, and he suddenly died by a very copious 
throwing up of blood. 
_ Inhydrophobia, the old physicians used it with great success. 
_ It would be well if its application in such cases were renewed, 
— least minutely investigated. A German journal states, that 
ma case of hydrophobia, when the female patient was unable 
to swallow, it was determined to inject Belladonna into the 
