74 FLORA HOMCOPATHICA. 
land. Only six or seven persons in the house took the disease 
afterwards, and in every instance it assumed the mildest form. 
In another small school we were called to visit a child about two 
years old, who had been attacked the evening before; the dis- 
ease was of the most malignant character, and the child died on 
the following morning, the third day of the attack. The house 
is a very small one. There were in it three other children and 
five boarders, and a servant girl. The Belladonna was faith- 
fully administered, and not ome individual took the disease. 
“We will not offer any conjecture on the modus operandi of 
the Belladonna, or whether it did or did not prevent the other 
members of these families from taking the disease. The facts 
are stated exactly as they occurred, and we entreat our medical 
brethren to make trial of Belladonna whenever a favourable 
opportunity offers. The following was the manner of giving 
the medicine: three grains of the extract of Belladonna, dissolved 
in three ounces of proof spirit; of this solution as many drops 
are to be taken as the patient is years old.” 
The Medical Gazette then goes on: “As our readers may not 
be fully aware of the circumstances alluded to in the above 
paper, we subjoin some observations on this subject made by 
Professor Koreff, in a letter to the late M. Laennec, published 
in the Bulletin des Sciences Médicales. ‘ Observation clearly 
proves,’ says he, ‘that the Belladonna taken for some time, 
either in powder or in extract, produces, especially in infants, 
a redness of the skin, which is sometimes transient, but at others 
more durable; dryness of the mouth, with a sense of heat in 
the throat; dilatation of the pupil; anxiety ; occasional swelling 
of the submaxillary glands; symptoms having a great resem- 
tenes - those which accompany the eruption of scarlatina. 
™ effect of the Belladonna has also this, in common with 
scarlatina, that neither of them produce the redness of the skin 
invariably, whilst the symptoms about the throat are always 
present. I confess to you, however, that all these analogies did 
hot appear to me sufficiently strong to persuade me, that in this 
