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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    In five minutes his pulfe was quicker, and between the tenth and fifteenth minute, he was affected with a flight pain of the head. In fixteen minutes he ex- perienced a heavinefs in his eyes; in twenty his hands and feet were warm and fweaty; and his pulfe was full and tenfe. In feventy, his face was fluflied; and in eighty, naufea fupervened. He now drank fome cold water, which relieved the naufea, and the other fymp- toms. On the fucceeding morning he informed me, that he felt unufuaily cheerful, and that his appetite was increafed. EXPERIMENT XXV. V. M. on whom experiment 23d. was inftituted, his pulfe beating eighty times in a minute, took four grains of the powdered leaves. Ini 2 Pulfe beat(8i!76 10 15 20 25 8o'78'76 74 35|45]5o|6oJ75| Minutes. 74 68 66 66 66 Strokes. In twelve minutes the pulfe was more full and tenfe, and the heat of his face and hands was increafed. In twenty-eight minutes his head became giddy, and his itomach fick. This ficknefs at ftomach was of ihort duration. In about forty-eight minutes the full- nefs and tenfion of his pulfe had rather increafed. In about feventy minutes evident intoxication was indu- ced, refembling that which arifes from drinking alco- hol. His cheeks and his eyes were reddened; his pupils were dilated; his voice faukered; and he was