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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    hardly capable of fitting erecl. About the eightieth minute he took fome tea, which obviated in fome meafure the preceding fymptoms. In a fhort time his pulfe was felt, and it beat eighty-four nrokes in a minute. This experiment was made in the evening. During the night he experienced much head-ache and thirft. On the fucceeding morning his tongue was covered with a white pellicle. He was troubled with head-ache and with pain in his limbs for many fubfe- quent days. Thefe latter fymptoms regularly fuperven- ed upon the approach of evening, and continued till morning. EXPERIMENT XXVI. I gave to I. C. about fifty years old, and laboring under mania of diminifhed violence, five grains of the powdered leaves. Previoufly to exhibiting the medicine, his pulfe beat eighty-three times in a minute. Pulfe beat 75 7.^ 74 20! 26] 30 63 61 60 45\5°\55 /o 6670'777 80I Minutes. 80 Strokes. In about eight minutes fome naufea occurred: his pulfe was more tenfe. In twenty minutes he had an urinary difcharge ; in thirty his pulfe had become full. The Peruvian bark, he faid, that he had taken, had made him thirfty. He drank fome water. In forty- two minutes the heat of his body was manifeftiy in- creafed; and in fifty his cheeks were reddened. About the fifty-eighth minute he had an alvine, and urinary