DATURA sTRAMONIUM. ‘ORD. XII. Solanacece, seu Luride.. 20¥ 
affected with convulsive complaints, by the use of this medicine.” 
Other instances of the kind might be added. Greding however, 
who made many experiments, with a view to ascertain the efficacy ~ 
of this plant, was not so successful; for out of the great number of 
cases in which he employed the Stramonium, it was only in one in- 
stance that it effected a cure; and he odjects to the cases stated by 
Dr. Odhelius, on the ground that the patients were dismissed before- 
sufficient time was allowed to know whether the disease would 
return again or not.” In this country we are unacquainted with 
any practitioners whose experience tends to throw any light on the 
medical character of this plant. It appears to us, that its effects as 
a medicine are to be referred to no other power than that of a nar- 
cotic; and Dr. Cullen, speaking on this subject, says, “I have no 
doubt that narcotics may be a remedy in certain cases of mania and 
epilepsy ; but I have not, and I doubt if any other person has, 
learned to distingul ly 
adapted. It is aerate that we find the other narcotics, as well as 
the Stramonium, to fail in the same hands in which they had in 
other cases seemed ‘to succeed. It is this consideration that has 
occasioned ‘my neglecting the use of Stramonium, and therefore 
prevented me from speaking more precisely from my own expe- 
rience on_.this subject.’ 
Fhe extract of this plant, has been the iain usually em-- 
ployed, and from one to ten grains and upwards, a day ;. but the 
powdered leaves, after the manner of those directed of hemlock, 
would seem for the reason there given, to be a preparation more 
certain and convenient. Greding found the strength of the extract 
to vary exceedingly; that which he obtained from Ludwig, was a: 
much more powerful medicine than that which he had of Stoerck. 
- Externally the leaves of Stramonium have been used as an appli- 
cation to inflammatory tumours and burns; in - latter a remark~ 
able instance is noticed by Gerard. LG. 
' Diss. de Stammonii ust, &c. 
™ Ludwig. Advers, vol, i. p. 354, ree » Mat. Med. vol. ii. p. 2822. 
No, 17, vox, 2. Pe $s 
