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but it left her ftupid and blind. Tiie pupils of her eyes 

 were much dilated, and flie catched at the bed clothes 

 and at every thing around her, in the fame manner as a 

 peiTon in the laft ftage of a fever. As I v^as perfuaded the 

 oil fhehad taken, had evacuated all fuchof the feeds as were 

 in the guts, I began to fufpeft, that her complaints were 

 llill kept up by a few feeds which ftill remained in her fto- 

 xnach. I therefore gave her four grains of Tart, emetic, 

 in the manner I foraiierly mentioned, and had the pleafure 

 to find, that it brouglit up above eighty of the feeds, the 

 kcond time it puked her. Finding the ftupor and blind- 

 nefs ftill contuiue, I repeated the puke, which brought 

 up above twenty more. Upon this all her complaints va- 

 niflied, and in a few days flie appeared perfedly welL 



It may perhaps appear furprizing to fome, how fo many 

 of the feeds of the Strammonium foould be lodged fo long^ 

 in a child's ftomach, without producing much worfe ef- 

 fects than thofe we have mentioned, efpccialty when we 

 confider the accounts which Dr. Stork has given us of the 

 effects of a very fmall quantity of it. In order to account 

 for this, we muft remark, that the feeds the child fwal- 

 lowed were of the laft year's growth, and were become 

 fo dry and hard as to refemble little pieces of horn, 13e-^ 

 fides the feeds of the narcotic plants in general contain but 

 very little of their virtues; even the feeds of the poppv- 

 itfelf may be taken in large quantities, without producing 



of the efFc£ts of opium. Dr. S'tork^s experiments 

 were made entirely with the extract of the Strammonium, 

 two grains of which contain more of the narcotic quality 

 of the plant, than three hundred of the dried feeds. 



My chief defign in relating the above cafe, is to make 

 two obfervations, which may be of ufe in other cafes, 



I. We learn the wonderful connedion between the fur- 



fkin and the alimentary canal. Eruptions 



any 



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face of the 



upon the flcin are generally attributed to an acrimony in 

 the blood. In the prefenc cafe we fee an eruption occafi- 

 oned by acrid fubftances irritating the ftomach and bowels. 



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