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time the patient fcemed relieved, and by 

 degrees recovered. 



Mr. Bacon wsls informed that the fallad 

 which the patient had eaten for fupper, con- 

 fifted of common herbs bought at a ftall in 

 the market, except fome celery picked out 

 of their own garden. He defired to fee feme 

 of the celery : a fpecimen was brought to 

 him, which Mr. Bacon perceived was the 

 blue Monkfliood, or aconitum caeruleum. 



Dr. Storck, of Vienna, reduced to powder 

 the leaves and ftalks of blue monkfhood : 

 fome of this applied to his tongue, occafioned 

 fome tranfient, although pungent pains in 

 his mouth, accompanied with a fenfation of 

 heat. With a view to afcertain whether the 

 powder had any corrofive effe(5ts, he fprinkled 

 fpme of it upon the furface of a fungous ul- 

 cer. The patient complained neither of 

 heat nor pain ; and although the application 

 was feveral times renewed, the fungous flefh 

 was neither confumed nor reftrained in its 

 progrefs. Dr. Storck after this evaporated 

 the expreffed juice to the confiftence of an 

 extract. Some of this applied upon the 



tongue. 



