The Sumbul : a new Asiatic remedy of great power against nervous disorders, spasms of the stomach, cramp, hysterical affections, paralysis of the limbs, and epilepsy : with an account of its physical, chemical, and medicinal characters, and specific property of checking the progress of collapse-cholera, as first ascertained in Russia / by A.B. Granville.

Date:
1850
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Credit: The Sumbul : a new Asiatic remedy of great power against nervous disorders, spasms of the stomach, cramp, hysterical affections, paralysis of the limbs, and epilepsy : with an account of its physical, chemical, and medicinal characters, and specific property of checking the progress of collapse-cholera, as first ascertained in Russia / by A.B. Granville. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    On my own part I lost not a moment in availing nayself of the possession of a quantity of the feum^^ul which had been presented to me by the med eal staff of the Petro-Paulowsky Hospital, m St. Petersburg, in the month of July, 1849-and of the mformation I had obtained respecting it in Russia, as well as subsequently in some parts of Germany mimediately before my return home. I set about makmg various preparations of it, both as mfusions and decoctions of various strength, from which I col- lected solid precipitates for examination-next as tinctures, with alcohol and ether, singly or conjointly— also as an extract, and in powder, all of which prepa- rations I have had opportunities of employing m practice, ever since September last, in cases of dis- ordered nerves and such other analogous complaints as are mentioned in the title page, among which Epilepsy is reckoned as one. The coincidence of Mr. Savory having, from fair and logical deductions, suggested it also as a likely remedy for that disease, and the success which has attended its use in that case, as well as in the cases of that com- plaint which came under my own observation, maybe accepted as an encouraging circumstance in the useful application to be made of this drug. I have also employed a respectable chemist to make an ethereal alcoholic tincture of the Sumbul,with some of my own specimens, which cannot be otherwise than most genuine, considering the quarter they came from] and it has proved so powerful, that the operator, who tasted it, acknowledged it to be extraordinary m its effects on the mouth and palate.