An essay on neuralgia ... / [John William Boyles Murray].

  • Murray, John William Boyles, -1818.
Date:
1816
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    mately result, the precedents afforded by a highly respectable physician, will justify any trial to the same extent. Perhaps, from the reasons before stated, other practitioners have given opposite opinions on this subject, and have been inclined to believe, that the gene- rality of the cases reported to be absolutely cured by hemlock, were actually rheumatick. A similar belief has been entertained with re- gard to the cures said to have been effected by Stramonium. Datura stramonium has been extensively employed with this view in the State of Con- necticut, especially in New-Haven, and _ its vicinity. A disease sometimes appears in young females of a plethorick and rather irritable ha- bit, strongly resembling Neuralgia, which yields to Stramonium, and may have given rise to a belief in the anti-neuralgick virtue of that vege- table’. A case of this I have never seen, and cannot point out any distinctive marks; I know rio reason why it may not be genuine Neuralgia, symptomatick of some uterme derangement. We are authorized, however, to express some doubts as to its efficacy, in general, as well as of Belladonna and Hyoscyamus. According to Dr. Darwin, “ five grains of the powdered leaves of Atropa belladonna, are recommended in some foreign publications, to be repeated ec MS. Notes on Dr. Mott’s lectures.