272 ESSAYS anp OBSERVATIONS, 
15 10b dys thi) 
The Effects of the Thorn-Apple, by Dr A+ 
BRAHAM SWAINE Phyfician at Brent- 
ford *. 
> Oprrr BuULMER, a man of a ftrong 
~ conftitution, 69 years of age, and 
. who had enjoyed a good ftate. of health 
all his life, tll about two years before, 
when he was firtt afflicted with the gra- 
vel; in O&ober 1746, being advifed by 
a friend to take a decoction of the fruit . 
of the common burdock, as a remedy for 
his difeafe, by miftake gathered the fruit 
of the ftramonium or thorn-apple. Af-= 
ter dividing three of thefe, each of which 
was as big as a {mall hen’s egg, inte two 
parts, he boiled them in a pint of milk, — 
which, when a little cooled, he drank off 
about eighto’clock in the morning fafting. 
Prefently afterwards, he became vertigi- 
nous 
* May 1. 3555. 
