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In four days time fhe obferved her appe- 

 tite to return, her body was more open, and 

 the convulfive fits were much abated in their 

 violence and continuance. She then was 

 ordered to take fix grains of the extradt. 

 During feven fucceeding days flie had no re- 

 turn of the convulfions, and enjoyed quiet 

 and refrefliing fleep. On the eighth day fhe 

 had fome flight twitchings in her legs and 

 feet, but they did not continue long. Du- 

 ring the two following months flie took, 

 each day, nine grains of the extradt, but as 

 no returns of the convulfions were perceived 

 in that fpace of time, fhe forbore its farther 

 ufe, and obtained a permanent cure. 



Dr. Storck informs us that he afterwards 

 adminiflered the extradl of henbane in twelve 

 other cafes, fome of which had obflinately 

 refilled the mofl efficacious medicines. 



They were chiefly of the fpafmodic kind, 

 and if his relation of them is to be depended 

 on, they prove that henbane in guarded dofes 

 is one of the moft powerful fedative medi- 

 cines with which we have hitherto been ac- 

 quainted, poflfeflTing the virtues of opium, 



without 



