54 Narcotine, and Sulphate of Morphine. 
now, after having taken this dose for a great number of times, for the 
relief of an habitual Dyspneeal cough, it seems to be full as much as 
I can bear, without the production of disagreeable symptoms. The 
first two or three doses that I ever took in the evening, caused a head- 
ache, for some hours, the next morning. M for 
pain in the stomach, took one fourth of a grain of Pelletier’s Sulphate 
of Morphine, with relief of the pain, for which it was prescribed, 
within ten minutes. In about three hours, it caused so much vertigo, 
faintness, and nausea, as to confine her to the bed, for the remainder 
of the day, which was seven or eight hours. A night’s sleep, as is 
usual, entirely, removed these symptoms. Miss M— A— M—, 0 
an exquisitely nervous and susceptible temperament, took, at bed- 
time, for irritation in the alvine canal, one eighth of a grain of Pel- 
- letier’s Sulphate of Morphine, made into a pill with extract of Gen- 
tian, and the same quantity the next morning, before rising. For 
the whole day, she had very troublesome vertigo, faintness, and 
nausea, and also frequent retching, which symptoms did not leave 
her, till after another night’s sleep ; and even the day following, she 
had very great languor and lassitude. H— R— P—, a young lady 
aged 14, on account of a Diarrhoea, took, at 10 o’clock A. M. one 
fourth of a grain of Sulphate of Morphine, made into a pill with ex- 
tract of Gentian, which entirely suspended the Diarrhcea, so that there 
was even no threatening of a return. Between one and two. o’clock 
P. M. she began to complain of vertigo, epigastric uneasiness, and 
nausea, which, in a short time, in consequence of some exertion and 
_ motion, produced vomiting. After this, the vertigo, epigastric un 
easiness, and nausea, increased considerably, and were attended with 
a distressing faintness, which soon confined her to the bed, where 
she was obliged to remain, the whole afternoon. About 6 o’clock 
P. M. she got up, which increased all the disagreeable symptoms, 
and again produced vomiting. She again went to ed, had cool skia 
and irregular pulse, and about seven o’clock, even whilst upon the 
bed, had another paroxysm of vomiting. After this, she got UP: 
merely for the purpose of undressing. After a night’s sleep, all disa- 
greeable symptoms entirely disappeared, and the next day, she was 
as well as usual. Dr. S— F—, for pain and distress in the stom 
ach, connected with long protracted functional derangement of the 
digestive organs, took one fourth of a grain of Sulphate of Morphine 
which gave perfect relief, ina very few moments, but, in two ort ree 
hours, occasioned vertigo, faintness, and nausea. Dr. Baxter, one 
of the translators of Magendie’s Formulary, says, “1 have lately 
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