A dissertation on the properties and effects of the datura stramonium, or common thorn-apple : and on its use in medicine / by Samuel Cooper, member of the Chemical and Medical Societies of Philadelphia.

  • Cooper, Samuel, 1772-1798.
Date:
MDCCXCVII [1797]
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Credit: A dissertation on the properties and effects of the datura stramonium, or common thorn-apple : and on its use in medicine / by Samuel Cooper, member of the Chemical and Medical Societies of Philadelphia. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ( *» ) When ten minutes had elapfed he found hU head ibmewhat giddy : in twenty he was drowfy, and his pulfe was quick. In thirty minutes his hands fweated: in forty his tongue acquired iome whitenefs, and the eye a pupil fomcwhat more dilated. In forty-five mi- nutes his pulfe beat fuller and quicker ftrokes; his hands were warm, and covered wiihfweat; his cheeks redder, and his drowfmefs had increafed. In fifty minutes he complained of pain in his head; and his wh©le body was unufualiy warm:—in iixty his eves became nutty; his itomach nek. Dehrous of deeping he la;d his body in a horizontal pofition. In fixty-five minutes his pulfe evidenced great tenfion and was ftill fuller. I was now obliged to leave him, but re- turned to him, about the eightieth minute, and found him afleeo; his eye-lids were not completely clcfed; his face was red, and moid; he refembled a perfon laboring under the effecls of too much fpirituous po- tation. EXPERIMENT XXIV. M. F. aged forty, healthy, but having an ulcer on the leg, and his pulfe beating feventy-eight ftrokes in a minute, took in the evening two grains of the powdered leaves luipended in about an ounce of tem- perate water. In' 5 10I15 20 25|3o!4ol45!50|55,6ol65|70j8o]Mlnurcs. Pulfe beat '81 83 83'81 79 78 7876 74 73l7*i70;72.68 Strokes.