Hospital facts and observations : illustrative of the efficacy of the new remedies, strychnia, brucia, acetate of morphia, veratria, iodine, &c. in several morbid conditions of the system : with a comparative view of the treatment of chorea, and some cases of diabetes : a report on the efficacy of sulphureous fumigations in diseases of the skin, chronic rheumatism, &c. / by James Lomax Bardsley.

  • Bardsley, James Lomax, 1801-1876.
Date:
1830
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Credit: Hospital facts and observations : illustrative of the efficacy of the new remedies, strychnia, brucia, acetate of morphia, veratria, iodine, &c. in several morbid conditions of the system : with a comparative view of the treatment of chorea, and some cases of diabetes : a report on the efficacy of sulphureous fumigations in diseases of the skin, chronic rheumatism, &c. / by James Lomax Bardsley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    tendency to termulency to proced much more than half as far as some practitioners have gone, who have gradually advanced it from four grains of the pow- der to twenty-four, three or four times in the day. He has detailed the case of the late E. Sheffield, Esq. in which it was employed for some time, but without any permanent return of muscular power or sensation in the palsied limbs. Dr. Good, how- ever, adds, that this was a case of atonic affection, and hence there was no opportunity of giving full play to the power of the nux vomica. Some of my early trials were made with the extract of nux vomica, but owing to the variation in the effects of that substance, according to any peculiarity in its mode of preparation, 1 was led to relinquish its use in favour of strychnia, whose action is more certain and uniform. Since my experiments with strychnia were framing for publication^ it is pleasing to find, that this remedy has produced in other hands some of the effects I have described *. The annexed cases are intended to shew the real virtues of strych- nia in paralysis, and to illustrate the precise nature of its action on the human body in a state of disease. * It has been successfully employed by Cattaueo, Cramer, and Diffenbach. The observations of the first named writer more particularly merit attention. I am indebted to Dr. Ste- phenson and Mr. Churchill for the first information respecting the experiments of Cattaneo, as published in Omodei's Annali Universali di Medicina. Vid. Medical Botany, No. XIII.