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sine acceleratione nimia pulsus, congestionibus ad caput, con- 
vulsionibus et phrenitide lethali” (Method. Medend., Febr., p. 
57). According to Pinel, Esquirol, and others, Camphor is 
serviceable in certain kinds of mental disorder, and in others 
injurious. In Murray (1. c., p. 504) there is the following 
passage : “ Non miror aliquos Camphora sumta in majorem 
furorem raptos, vel quietos ante jam repente delirasse vel con- 
vulsivos fuisse, prout ille eger, cujus Carminati meminuit, ex 
scabie retrogressa maniacus.” Burserius von Kamtfeld ad- 
vises Camphor to be applied where the sensibilitas nervea is 
diminished, and not where the irritabilitas is augmented ; Fried- 
lander observes thereupon: “ But who does not know that in 
maniacis the sensibility of the whole body is diminished, being 
augmented in its principal seat, the brain. Were one to 
‘administer Camphor in this state, madmen would be driven 
into raving madness.” 'T. Lenhard says: “ It is hardly to be 
believed that medical men should be capable of such imbecility 
as to prescribe Camphor for patients in madness ; by the use of 
Camphor these patients are only rendered more frantic, de- 
ranged, and melancholy” (Dérffurt, 1. c., p. 232). According to 
Neiimann (1. ¢., vol. iv. p. 451), it is perhaps in no variety 
of mania possible to suppress the malady so easily in its 
first commencement, as in the mania puerperalis that occa- 
sionally breaks out in child-bed, and that by means of Cam- 
phor. According to Kraus (Philos. Pract. Pharmacol., 
Goett., 1831, p. 478), the recommendations of Camphor for 
cramps in child-bearing, for mania, particularly mania libidinosa, 
and for diseases of seminal irritation in general, as also for 
narcotism, particularly when proceeding from opium, are pro- 
ducts of servile implicit faith. Siemerling observed after 
Camphor “intoxication of the second degree;” the pheno- 
mena that Camphor produces in the organism have an extra- 
ordinary analogy with those produced by spirituous liquors. 
Barkhausen (Observations on Drunken Madness, Bremen, 1828, 
p- 112) has nevertheless seen Camphor often used, and has 
