4G4 3 -ORD. XXVI. Multisilique, aconrruM NaPELLYDS, 
« & deorsum erumpentes, tum ventris tumores, & alia gravissima 
“‘ symptomata, sudorem frigidum, asphyxiam.’* Stoerck appears 
to be the first who gave the Wolf’s-bane internally, as a medicine; 
and since his experiments were published, ‘in 1702, it has been 
generally and often successfully employed in Germany, and the 
- northern parts of Europe, particularly as\a remedy for obstinate 
rheumatisms: and many cases are related where this disease was 
of several years duration, and had withstood the efficacy of other 
powerful medicines, as mercury, opium, antimony, cicuta, &c, 
yet, in a short time, were entirely cured by the Aconitum." 
Instances are also given us of its good effects in gout, scrophulous 
swellings, venereal nodes, amaurosis, Intermittent fevers, &e.! 
Bergius describes its Virtus to be pellens, sudorifera, diuretica, 
subvertiginosa ; recens venenata ; Usus, rheumatismus, arthritis, 
malum ischiadicum. 
& N. 1198. 1.c. These symptoms are collected from a number of fatal instances 
of its poisonous effects, some of which we shall mention. The root was given by 
way of experiment to four condemned criminals, two at Rome, in the year 1524, 
and two at Prague, in 1561, of whom two soon perished, the other two, with great 
difficulty, recovered. Matthiol. in Dioscorid. p. 768. It has frequently been 
eaten by mistake for other plants, and proved fatal. Willis de Anima brutor. p. 
289. Dodon, Stirp. Pempt. L. 4. p. 442. Bacon, Philos. Trans. vol. 38. p. 284. 
And the following remarkable fact is said to have happened at Sweden:—A person 
having eaten some of the fresh leaves of the Napellus, became maniacal, and the 
on who was called to his assistance declared, that the plant was not the cause 
of the disorder; and, to convince the company that it was perfectly innocent, he 
eat freely of its leaves; but he suffered by his temerity, for soon after he died in 
greatagony. Moraeus, |, c. 1739. p. 41. 
* Stoerck libell. de stramon, &c. Contin. Exper. Libell. de Pulsatill. Nig. p. 
58. Rosenstein, Hall Epist. vol. 5. p, 174. Collin Observ. pars. 2. Blom Vet. 
Acad. Handi. 1773. p. 258. Odhelius, ibid. 1776. p. 68. Hast, Med. Virkets 
tilstand, p. 307. Ribe, vide Reinhold Diss. p. 37. Comment. de rebus, vol. 2. p. 
240. Diss. de usu salutari Extr. Acon. in Arthritide pres. BOhmer Hal. 1768. a 
- pag 10 ad 13. Aug. Phil. Gesner. Beobacht a. d. Arzn. vol. 1. p. 196. Tode, 
Med. chir. Bib. vol. 2. P. 1. p. 120.  Tritze Mediz. Annalen, yol. 1. p. 327. 
Stoller, Beob. u, Erf, p. 146. Stoll Rat. Medend. P. 3. p. 167. 
* See the authors referred to above, 
