An essay on the use of the atropa belladonna, or solanum lethale, and the solanum hortense : with practical observations on their effects in the cure of scirrhus, cancer, stricture, and various other complaints / by Powell Charles Blackett.

  • Blackett, Powell Charles.
Date:
1826
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Credit: An essay on the use of the atropa belladonna, or solanum lethale, and the solanum hortense : with practical observations on their effects in the cure of scirrhus, cancer, stricture, and various other complaints / by Powell Charles Blackett. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Dr. Hunt, of Richmond, Surry, has most obligingly communicated to me the following case of tic douloureux. '' I regret that I have nothing on the subject of Belladonna to communicate that is entitled to your consideration; unless so far as the following meagre facts may tend to advance the claim of the medicine to attention, as one mode of relief, in neuralgic pains. '* In March, 1824, 1 was requested to visit a lady at Stratford, in Essex, in consultation with Mr. Hackness, of Ratclitf. She stated that, two months previously, in consequence of damp feet, she was attacked with fever, bilious vomiting, and pains which were at first considered rheu- matic. The most marked symptom, at the com- mencement, was a sudden and violent seizure of pain at the insertion of the deltoid muscle in the arm, which, on the following day, as suddenly shifted its seat, and fixed on the anastomosing' branches of the fifth and seventh pairs of nerves of the left cheeky under the unequivocal form of tic douloureux ; ranging from the angle of the mouth and ala of the nose to the mastoid process of the same side. The paroxysms progressively increased in severity until they attained their acme about a fortnight previous to my visit. The patient was confined to her bed ; she was unable- to articulate, except in a low whisper; and suf-'