Volume 1

A supplement to Observations on the internal use of the nightshade / [Thomas Gataker].

  • Gataker, Thomas, -1769
Date:
1757
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A supplement to Observations on the internal use of the nightshade / [Thomas Gataker]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    » [ 26 ] and painful, and fometimes (he was affect¬ ed with fevere Pains in different Parts of the Body. She deiired to take the Night¬ fhade. She began with half a Grain of the Garden Nightfhade, which had no Effeft. She increafed the Dofe gradually and care¬ fully to feven Grains but as it failed to pro¬ mote an Increafe of any of the natural Dif- charges, at lead: having but a very flight Ef¬ fect that Way, and as the Patient was natu¬ rally coftive, tho’ this Circumftance was as much guarded againfl: as poflible, fhe thought that the medicine began to heat her, and at my Requeft, immediately de- fifted from any further ufe of it. : A Lady in the Country, who had long had a Cancer in one of her Breafts, which had been ulcerated a confiderable Time, and which had fometimes been fubjeCt to bleed, a[ • , \ r , . , refolving to try the Nightfhade, applied to me four Months ago for Directions about taking it. She took the Deadly Nightfhade near three Months. Having heard but once from her during this Time, I de- fired to know the Effefts of the Medicine ; and