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and a pill; the former is compofed of three drams and’ 
a half of the dried leaves of Datura Stramonium, or 
thorn-apple, repeated three days fucceflively, which 
in a few hours produce intoxication;—a_ remedy 
which demands no {mall circum{pection, fince, accord- 
ing to Dr. ANDERSON, the feeds of a fingle apple 
are found fuflicient to caufe immediate apoplexy and 
death, and are too often employed by the natives 
who deliberately perpetrate fuicide. 
Dr. De Wirt, an American practitioner, informs 
us, that this plant produces not only intoxication and 
madnefs, but fometimes real fymptoms of hydropho- 
bia.* The Tanjore pill confifts of arfenic, mercury, 
and pepper, equal parts, with three other unknown 
poifons. Of eleven perfons bitten by mad-dogs, and 
treated with this remedy, all are faid to have remained 
well at the end of five months, while three others, 
for whom nothing was done, died of hydrophobia 
within a month after the bite.- But the wounds of 
the former being dilated and daily dreffed with mer- 
curial ointment, are we to attribute the fuccefs to 
the pills or the mercury? 
The Belladonna, fo highly extolled in Germany, 
has loft its reputafion in France. Being adminiftered 
in dofes of fifteen and even twenty grains a fortnight 
before the commencement of the difeafe, caufed ex- 
* Medical Repofitory, vol. ti. p. 33. 
+ Medical Journal, vol. x. p. 289. 
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