PHYSICAL AiJD LITERARY. 247 



Art. XL 



The EffeBs of the ^horn- Apple, by Br. Abra- 

 ham SwAiNE Phyfician at Brentford *. 



ROBERT BuLMER, a man of a ftrong con- 

 ftitutlon, 69 years of age, and who 

 had enjoyed a good ftate of health all his life, 

 till about two years before, when he was firft 

 afflidled with the gravel j in OBober 1746, 

 being advifed by a friend to take a decodtion 

 of the fruit of the common burdock, as a 

 remedy for his difeafe, by miflake gathered 

 the fruit of tht ftramonium or thorn-apple. 

 After dividing three of thefe, each of which 

 was as big as a fmall hen's Qgg, into two 

 parts, he boiled them in a pint of milk, 

 which, when a little cooled, he drank off a- 

 bout eight o'clock in the morning fafting. 

 Prefently afterwards, he became vertiginous 

 or giddy ; and therefore rofe from his chair 

 to take the air, with an intention to pluck 

 more fruit. In walking two or three hun- 

 dred yards from his houfe, he ftaggered.as 



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* May I. 1755. 



