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of Its operation, fometimes violently purging 

 the patient, fometimes flimulating the kid- 

 neys, or increafing greatly the cuticular dif- 

 •charge,.' and fometimes producing no evacua- 

 tion- of any kind; that, in (hort, no confe- 

 iquende of its adminillration was with any 

 certainty to be expected, except the mifchicf 

 it did to the organs of vifion. Mod of thofe 

 who took it complained either of giddinefs, 

 violent throbbing pain in the eyes, with a 

 difcharge of tears, and in all the pupil was 

 as much dilated, and had the fame appear- 

 ance, as if the patient laboured under a con- 

 cuffion of the brain, or paralytic ftate of the 

 optic nerve : and it was much fufpeded that 

 the ufe of the folanum haftened the death of 

 feveral who took it *. 



Mr. Gataker, how^ever, in a publication 

 fince the obfervations he communicated to 

 the Royal Society, ingenuoufly acknowledges, 

 that his expedlations were not anfwered; 

 that the event of fome cafes difappointed his 

 firft hopes, either by the cure proving in- 

 complete, or only temporary; that he found 



* Bromfleld on Nightfliade, p. 69. 



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