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Materia Medica

Stimulants

or others, this effect continued for eleven days when they recovered
without medicine or injury, this proves the power of the
constitution to resist poison of vegitables, the extract and the preparations
of the Stramonium is said by some authors to be sedative, but it
certainly is not, the Turks sometimes use the seed instead of wine,
it is remarkable that Wedenburgh who called it a sedative, says
that it increases the circulation, so far however from being a
sedative it is a universal stimulant as is fully demonstrated by Saml
Cooper, it increases the tension and frequency of the pulse, and
also increases the perspiration and urine, it excites thirst and is said
to have brought on salivation, and has induced teatanus and
hydraphobia in some English soldiers in Elizabeth Town under Sir
John Sinclair they had eaten it through mistake, hydraphobia
has also been induced by many articles particularly camphor. I shall
now say something of its use in diseases, this is one of those active
medicines which we have become better acquainted with since the
time of Stork. He recommended it in Mania, Epilepsy, &c. He employ’d
the extract and has had some success. Cullen says he is less ardent
in its favour that he was with the other medicines of the same
kind which he recommended. Mr Grading used it in Epilepsy