Volume 1

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

  • Gataker, Thomas, -1769
Date:
1757
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Credit: A supplement to Observations on the internal use of the nightshade / [Thomas Gataker]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [46 ] Patient unable to read a fmall Print, or to do any fine Work. This Symptom however ceafes after the Medicine is intirely difufed ; and in no one Inftance that I have feen or known, has it occafioned any lafting Weaknefs in the Sight. But admitting the Poffibility of fuch an Accident, the Argument could only hold againft the Con¬ tinuance of the Medicine where this Symp¬ tom was very troublefome, in the fame Manner as it might be urged againft the Ufe of Blifters, which often have the fame Effedt, efpecially when they are made per- Another Circumftance I thought necef- fary to mention in the laft Account was, the Preference which I imagined the Gar¬ den Nightfhade ought to have to that Species of this Plant called the Deadly Nightfhade. In my firft Account I obferved, as a very An¬ gular Circumftance, the Similarity of Efedts fervation from the Refemblance which there really is in the Effedts produced by them, and petual