ATROPA BELLADONNA. Tt 
as far as possible; they are given only in cases where the 
disease is composed of symptoms strictly analogous to those 
they excite in a healthy subject. 
“ Guided by numerous trials made upon sick persons, I am at 
length resolved to use only the decillionth dilution, of which I 
find the smallest part of a drop sufficient to include all the 
indications that can apply to this medicine. 
“ In this dose (when it is homeopathic), Belladonna cures the 
most violent maladies, its action being exerted with a rapidity 
that harmonizes with the nature of the disease.” 
Belladonna has become remarkable in homeopathic therapeu- 
tics as a PROPHYLACTIC IN SCARLET FEVER. The following are 
Hahnemann’s remarks on this subject: “‘ The property I have 
discovered in Belladonna, given in a small dose every six or 
seven days, of being a preservative against scarlatina, as 
Sydenham, Plenciz, and others, have described, was for nine- 
teen years brought into contempt by physicians, who, ignorant 
that this disease belongs only to children, have confounded it 
with the purple miliary introduced from Belgium in 1801, and 
have applied to the latter my method, which, of course, failed, 
I rejoice, however, that of late years other physicians have dis- 
tinguished the ancient and true scarlatina, establishing the 
preservative property of Belladonna in that disease, and have 
thus rendered justice to my labours so long misunderstood.” 
The following are the practical observations of Dr. Fleisch- 
mann, described in Hufeland’s Journal, June and July, 
1835, on the preservative effect of Belladonna against scar- 
latina: 
Some experiments with this medicine were made on fifty-two 
children during an epidemy of scarlatina, and though not on a 
sufficiently extensive scale to have much weight, deserve to be 
added to the number of those instituted for a similar purpose. 
The extract of Belladonna, two grains to an ounce of dis- — 
tilled water, was administered to fifty-two children, from six 
months to fourteen years of age; the remedy was administered — 
