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lity of this plant, refers to Junker, and others of the 
modern phyficians, as recommending the decodtion 
of it with caution, that it be not given in fuch quan- 
tity as to caufe deep. So long fince as the year 
1739. there was a thefis publifhed at Hall, by Mi- 
chael Albert, in which the Bella-donna is propofed 
as a fpecific in cancerous cafes. What other phyfi- 
cians patronize this ufe of it, I cannot fay, having 
but little opportunity of confulting thofe academic 
pieces, which are of fuch eminent ufe in compilations 
of this kind. Thus much is certain, that its ufe, in 
fuch cafes, rather gains ground ; and the cafe, pub- 
lifhed in the French Bibliotheque (25), printed at 
the Hague, of an ulcerated cancer being radically 
cured by an infufion of the leaves of this plant in 
water, deferves particular attention, on account of its 
being fo well attefted. The cafe is extracted from 
an inaugural thefis of Profefior Lambergen’s, who 
was the phyfician concerned (26). The event was 
fo fingularly happy and fuccefsful in this inftance, 
that we hope it will need no apology, if we give a 
particular detail of it. 
The perfon afflidted with this miferable difeafe 
was a widow of 34 years of age, and mother of 
four children.. She had but weak nerves, and had. 
been fubjedt to inflammatory diforders. She informed 
M. Lambergen, upon examining her, that fhe had 
had a quinzy fix times, which had twice ended in 
fuppuration : that eight years before her right bread: 
(25) Bibliotheque des Sciences et des beaux Arts pour les mois 
Jan. Fevr. Mars. 1755. 
(26) Tiberii Lambergen Ledtio inauguralis, filters Ephemeri- 
den perfanati Carcinomatis, Groning. 1754. 
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