A letter to Dr. Peter Shaw, concerning a very useful discovery and considerable improvement in the black epileptical powder, (Pulvis epilepticus niger) / [Diederick Wessel Linden].

  • Linden, Diederick Wessel, active 1745-1768
Date:
1746
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Credit: A letter to Dr. Peter Shaw, concerning a very useful discovery and considerable improvement in the black epileptical powder, (Pulvis epilepticus niger) / [Diederick Wessel Linden]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ( *3 ) * never heard before the fame men¬ tioned by any learned Man, and no Notice being taken thereof by any Author antient or modern I have read, I enquired the Ufe thereof; when, to my great Surprize, I was told, that the fame was an in- fallible Remedy againft the FalLing- Sick nefs, which they ufed in the following manner^ viz. They dry thefe Bones gradually on the Stoves (by which the Rooms in Germany are warmed] and after being dried thoroughly, they re¬ duce them to a Powder, which they divide in nine equal Parts, and give one Powder each Morning falling, for nine fucceffive Mornings. For a young Child at the Breaft of one Month old or upwards, they take three of thefe Bones; for a Child from