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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    '[ *5 1 having gotten more ufe of his limbs than he ever expected. It is but right to obferve, that during two years previous to his application to me, every other means had, in vain, been employed, to reftore the adtion of his leg and arm. CASE III. Mr. B—, furgeon, aged 47, after having been afflidted for many months with a complication of diforders, hsemoptyfis, jaundice, mefenteric ob- ftrudtion, and general atrophy, loft entirely the ufe of all his limbs; and even his mental faculties underwent a fimilar paralyfis. All his powers of ratiocination were fufpended, and he was reduced to a ftate nearly as helplefs as that of a child only fix months old. In this fltuation I gave him the Toxicodendron, half a grain three times a day, which, in the courfe of a week, improved his appetite, and removed the habitual coftivenefs to which he had long been fubjedt. The dofe was gradually increafed to one grain, three times a day. It produced fome twitching acrofs the abdomen, with irregular or convulfive motion in the limbs ; and when the nervous influx feemed to pafs to the extremities, it excited in the brain fuch a fenfation of pain, as made him frequently exclaim molt violently : but when any one afked him where his pain