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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    I nowpropofed to her to try the Toxicodendron, which die did, by taking at firft the third of a grain, but in a few days a moft diftrefling naufea was induced, accompanied with the utmoft horror of the medicine, and I could not, by any arguments, perfuade her to a farther continuance in its ufe; the fit never afterwards returned, and fhe has remained ever fince free from this moft painful difeafe. CASE IX. V J. Richardson, aged 70, labourer, was fcized with a hemiplegia, and deprived of the ufe of the whole right fide. He took the Toxicodendron for five weeks, and perfectly recovered, without experiencing any fenfible convulfive aftion, except during the night, when in his Deep, the paralytic fide would frequently ftart. He never took more than five grains for a dofe nor lefs than one. CASE X. Extract of a letter from Mr. Featherston, Apothecary and Druggist. “ Daniel Barton, aged 14, of a fpare habit of body, when playing on a lhip’s maft, loft his hold.