An essay on the Rhus toxicodendron : with cases of its effects in the cure of paralytic affections, and other diseases of great debility / By Johnn Alderson.

  • Alderson, John, 1757-1829.
Date:
1804
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Credit: An essay on the Rhus toxicodendron : with cases of its effects in the cure of paralytic affections, and other diseases of great debility / By Johnn Alderson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    r *4 ] t and met with the fmalleft obftacle, a fall on the face was generally the confequence. Barton, July 25, 1793. This Lady has continued free from her paralytic complaints ever fince. March, 1802. » CASE II. Greg, mariner, complained of the lofs of one fide, which he attributed to filling afleep upon the deck, after being exhaufted by fatigue during a gale of wind. 1 ordered him half a grain of the powdered leaves of the Toxicodendron, three times a day. On the fecond day, he felt an unufual twitching, or convulfive motion, in the arm and leg affe&ed; and when I faw him on the Monday following, he could, without any afliftance, bring the deceafed leg acrofs the other, and had much more ufe of his arm. He continued his medicine a week longer, when finding himfelffo far recovered, that he could be employed as a pilot in the river, he was content not to compleat his cure, left it fhould fubjeft him to be imprefled. He has con- tinued in much the lame ftate for fome time paft, having