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first with giddiness, then with rage, stupor, dread, rattling in 
the throat, sighing, screaming, foaming at the mouth, sobbing, 
trembling, convulsions, and even epilepsy (Comp. Murray, 1. c., 
pp. 475, 480, 487, 504, 517, 519, etc). Pereira (Materia 
Medica, vol. ii. p. 792) mentions that Camphor dissolved in oil 
and administered to dogs, has produced tetanic convulsions. 
Purkinje and Alexander fell into convulsions on swallowing 
Camphor. Simmons saw in a maniac, to whom he gave Cam- 
phor in gradually augmented doses, an epileptic fit come on, 
after passing through which the patient recovered his senses 
(Richter’s Chir. Bibl., vol. vii. p. T71). Nevertheless, Camphor 
has acquired a great name in spasmodic diseases, in tetanus, 
epilepsy, and St. Vitus’s dance. Murray says of Camphor: 
“ Spasmos solvit,” and “ Epilepticis bene multis opem fert” 
(. c., pp. 485, 496); he even cites a case (Lockert Obs. 
Pract., p. 42), where an epilepsy of three years’ standing 
had been cured by Camphor. That Camphor produces inflam- 
mations of the organs is as well known as that it disperses them. 
Barthez recommends it as an antiphlogistic in spreading inflam- 
mations: “ In inflammationibus internis summo cum fructu pro- 
pinari, quotidie videmus” (Spéelmanni Instit. Mat. Med., Ar- 
gentor. 1774, p. 311). Dérffurt observes: “ In general, 
Camphor is said to have been employed with great success in 
all inflammatory diseases where there is a quick and lively 
pulse, and the blood circulating with difficulty” (Dessert. on 
Camphor, Wittenb. and Zerbst, 1793, p. 21 1). On the other 
hand, Geoffroy mentions that Camphor disposes the blood to 
inflammation (vol. ii. p. 781). Murray (1. ¢., p- 370) relates 
that Carminati and Menghini found, on dissecting the animals 
destroyed by Camphor, that the membranes of the brain, 
the lungs, heart, vessels, and intestines were inflamed ; while 
he himself adds, at p. 477: “ Protractiori autem actione in- 
flammat tam partes, in quarum immediato contactu est, quam 
alias remotiores;” but at p. 494, he says again: “ Levat et 
eximie internas inflammationes.” Pouteau calls Camphor @ 
