Observations on the internal use of the Solanum or nightshade / By Thomas Gataker.

  • Gataker, Thomas, -1769.
Date:
1757
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Credit: Observations on the internal use of the Solanum or nightshade / By Thomas Gataker. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the Medicine, and with the proper Manner of giving it. I found from repeated Trials, made with great Caution and Safety to the Patient, that fo fmall a Quantity as one Grain-weight of the Leaf, infufed in about an Ounce of boiling Water, and the Liquor afterwards flrained from the Leaf and taken at Bed-time, would fome- « * — times have a very confiderable Effedt; but that two or three Grains feldom failed either to vo¬ mit, fweat, or purge the Patient moderately, or to increafe the Quantity of Uripe. It fometimes occafions a Headach, Giddinefs, and, probably in confequence of thefe, a Dimnefs; Symptoms which are not conflantly to be expedted, and when they happen they generally ceafe or abate after the firft or fecond Dofe : A Drowfinefs or Difpofition to flepp, particularly upon the firft Ufe of the Nightfhade,is another Circurpftance which not unufually happens. In other refpedts, the moll common Effedts that I have obferv’d to enfue upon taking this Medicine were a Heat or Warmth diffufed in a few Hours over the Bo¬ dy^ plentiful Sweat fucceeding this Heat, and a gentle Purging the next Day: If a Sweat did not break out, an extraordinary Difcharge of Urine tyas the Confequence, and fometimes followed likewiie by a Purging. One or more of the na¬ tural Evacuations werealmoft always increafed. Thefe i