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Dr. Storck after this fwallowed every day 

 during the fpace of a week one grain of the 

 extradl of henbane, without any inconveni- 

 ence. He obferved that he had a better ap- 

 petite, and his body was more foluble than 

 ufual. Hence he concluded it might fafely, 

 in fmall dofes, be adminiftered to his pa- 

 tients. 



A WOMAN 37 years of age, in the hofpi- 

 tal at Vienna, to which Dr. Storck was phy- 

 lician, had been for more than a year almoft 

 every day afflided with violent convulfions. 

 The mod powerful antifpafmodics, Vv^hich 

 were either recommended by the bed 

 authors, or which in fimilar cafes bad been 

 known to have been ferviceable, were admi- 

 niftered without any good effedt. Opium 

 only, in large dofes, fiiortened the duration 

 of the paroxyfms, lolled the pains, but never 

 prevented a return : and it brought on a very 

 obftinate and habitual coftivenefs. In this 

 ftate of the cafe Dr. Storck gave every day, 

 at intervals, three grains of extrad: of hen- 

 bane. 



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