An experimental dissertation on the chemical and medical properties of the nicotiana tabacum of Linnaeus, commonly known by the name of tobacco / By Edward Brailsford.
- Brailsford, Edward, -1856
- Date:
- 1799
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: An experimental dissertation on the chemical and medical properties of the nicotiana tabacum of Linnaeus, commonly known by the name of tobacco / By Edward Brailsford. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Ei op This is fuifficiently exemplified in the work of Doétor - Fowler*, to whom we are greatly indebted for the feries of experiments enumerated by him. He has clearly demon- firated the influence of tobacco in promoting the urinary fecretion, and has as perfpicuoufly evinced the utility of its exhibition in violent cafes of Afcites, Anafarca, and Dyfury, Without a further difquifition relative to the operation ef tobacco on the human fyftem, I fhall proceed with enu- merating my experiments, and will leave it to the candid reader to judge how far they may merit his attention; they deferve at leaft the credit of being faithfully related. ExPERIMENT I, In order to afcertain the particular operation of tobacca, with refpect to its influence on the pulfe, I took three hours after breakfafting on toaft and coffee, forty drops of a ftrong decoétion of tobaccot ina little water. My pulfe beat feventy ftrokesin a minute. ‘The following table mani- fefts the ftimulating quality of this plant, as I have particu- larly fpecified the number of pulfations at the expiration of every 5th. minute. s ‘| 16] 15 | 20 | 25] 30135] 40] 451 sol ss | 60 Mine eS P. beat 72175175177 180 | 84] 84 | 811 76] 721 70 | 79 In ¥ See Fowler on Dropfy, page 72, where he obferves that out of one‘hundred and fifteen cafes in which he adminiftered tobacco, in ninety-three of them it proved diuretic. + Two drachms of the dried leaves of tobacco were put into four ounces of water, and boiled down to two.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b32885945_0029.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
