Cases Illustrative of the Sedative Powers of the Datura Stramonium
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The attention of the profession in this country, was not, I believe, particularly called to the medicinal properties of the Stramonium till Dr Marcet, in an interesting paper, read before the Medical and Chirurgical Society of London, in June 1816, and published in their Transactions *, detailed the ^results of his experience of its use. Storck, it is true, so early as 1762, in a pamphlet published at Vienna, gave an account of its virtues, and the results of its administration in some cases of maniacal, epileptic, and convulsive affections, which were fa-
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